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A team of scientists recently discovered what appears to be the oldest text of the Christian Bible - the Bible, written on a small piece of papyrus, used to work for an Egyptian mummy mask old.
Experts say that a piece of papyrus containing the text of the Book of Mark, is believed to have been written sometime during the first century AD time, before the year 90 AD.
Scientists explained that he has been writing this part of the Bible on a sheet of papyrus, which were later used as a mask to cover the mummy, according to the researchers, most of the mummies of the pharaohs and nobles, discovered in modern times, covering their faces masks of gold, but the ordinary people in those times, and they were buried on their faces masks made of papyrus, paint, glue, where not bear the making of gold funerary masks costs.
Moreover, the influence of Egyptians still gradually under Roman rule (30 BC until 619 AD), has become even indigenous citizens at the lowest levels of society, much of the Romans and Greeks poorest.
Evangelist text was written on a piece of papyrus before it is used to make mummy mask, which is treated very carefully of researchers, so that does not change in any part of its parts.
A special technique the scientists called "carbon 14" for the analysis of old documents used, also found a way to remove the glue from the mask so as not to affect the text, and it was the scientists to be very careful because the documents were very fragile, and it can be destroyed easily.
"Craig Evans" may occur, an expert in the "New Testament" studies, for the recent discovery, saying that the scientists also found the documents from the first century and the second and third century AD, some of the texts of Christianity and other biblical and ancient Greek, and leaves daily work and personal messages from those ages old.
Professor at the Faculty of Theology in Wolfville in Canada and Evans, explained that one of the masks discovered by scientists may contain 12 text can reveal important details about ancient history, and added Evans that nothing in the whole world only a very few documents dating to the years 100 and 200 AD until now.
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