Israeli archaeologists on Wednesday unveiled an ancient mosque in the country’s south that antiquities officials said sheds light on the region’s transition from Christianity to Islam. The remains of the mosque, believed to be more than 1,200 years old, were discovered during works to build a new neighbourhood in the Palestinian Bedouin city of Rahat, the Israel Antiquities Authority said in a statement. The mosque located in the Negev desert (also called Naqab in Arabic) contains “a square room and a wall facing the direction of Mecca”, with a half-circle niche in that wall pointing to the so…