Amman: Some 70 books, made of lead and dating back to over 2,000 years, have been found in a cave in Jordan.
These could be some of the earliest Christian scriptures, and a major discovery in Christian history, experts said.
“We are looking at a very important and significant discovery, maybe the most important discovery in the history of archaeology,” Ziad al-Saad, of Jordan’s Department of Antiquities, was quoted as saying by a leading daily.
David Elkington, head of a British team trying to get the books into a museum in Jordan, said: “It’s a breathtaking thought that we have held these objects that might have been held by the early saints of the Church.”
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