Scholars have discovered a 1,750-year-old portion of the Gospel of Matthew in a "layered" manuscript where the original Old Syriac-language writing had been erased and written over, something also known as a "palimpsest," the Austrian Academy of Sciences announced.
A new chapter of the Bible has been discovered by medievalist Grigory Kessel in a 1,750-year-old translation of Matthew's Gospel, using ultraviolet photography on manuscripts housed in the Vatican Library.
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