‘Until recently, only two manuscripts were known to contain the Old Syriac translation of the gospels’
Scientists have found a “hidden chapter” of Biblical text nearly 1,500 years after it was first written.
The lost section represents one of the earliest translations of the Gospels, according to the study published recently in the journal New Testament Studies.
Ultraviolet photography was used to find the chapter hidden underneath two layers of text by Grigory Kessel, from the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
“Until recently, only two manuscripts were known to contain the Old Syriac translation of the gospels,” Dr Kessel said.
One of these is in the British Library in London and another was discovered in St Catherine’s Monastery at Mount Sinai.