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Show Excavating in an early Egyptian cemetery, explorers recently discovered discov-ered what is regarded to be the earliest earli-est Egyptian version of the Gospel of St. John, believed to have been written writ-ten about 400 A. D. Seventy-five papyrus leaves, three-fourths of the complete work, wrapped in a rag, were taken from a pot unearthed in one of the cliff tombs, says the Popular Mechanics Me-chanics Magazine. When translated, the find is expected to shed light on the accepted idea of the Greek text in ancient Egypt. One of the oldest previous records of the gospel dates back to A. D. 200. |