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A fragment of the world’s oldest Bible, the Codex Sinaiticus, has been uncovered hidden underneath the binding of an 18th century book in an Egyptian monastery.
British based Greek academic, Nikolas Sarris, spotted a previously unseen section of the Codex Sinaiticus, which dates from about AD350, as he was trawling through photographs of a series of book bindings from the 18th century in the library of St Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt, UK’s The Independent and the Telegraph reported.
Over the centuries, antique parchment was often re-used by St Catherine’s monks in book bindings because of its strength and the relative difficulty of finding fresh parchment in such a remote corner of the world.
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British based Greek academic, Nikolas Sarris, spotted a previously unseen section of the Codex Sinaiticus, which dates from about AD350, as he was trawling through photographs of a series of book bindings from the 18th century in the library of St Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt, UK’s The Independent and the Telegraph reported.
Over the centuries, antique parchment was often re-used by St Catherine’s monks in book bindings because of its strength and the relative difficulty of finding fresh parchment in such a remote corner of the world.
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