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(JERUSALEM POST) -- More than 1,000 years ago, scribes in the ancient Land of Israel erased part of a religious book in order to reuse it. Since parchment was scarce in the desert during the Middle Ages, this was the only way they could make the resource last. Now, experts have been able to uncover lost words from ages past.
Efforts of a "medievalist," a specialist in medieval history and culture, from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) were able to uncover lost messages from the multi-layered manuscript. Expert Grigory Kessel discovered one of the oldest translations, dating back to the 3rd and 6th centuries respectively, and was able to conserve some of the remaining pages.
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The pages contained fragments dating back to ancient Syria. According to Kessel and his team of researchers, only two manuscripts were known to contain the ancient Syriac translation of the holy book. The two are kept safe in modern days in the British Library in London and St. Catherine's Monastery at Mount Sinai in Egypt.
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