British archaeologists are seeking to authenticate what could be a landmark discovery in the documentation of early Christianity: a trove of 70 lead codices that appear to date from the 1st century CE ...

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The codices are said to have been found in a Jordanian cave Questions have been raised over the claims of a self-styled archaeologist who is arguing that a set of supposedly ancient Christian books is ...

Travel with us down the ancient trade route that once connected the capital city of Mexico to the Atlantic coast. Sixty miles down this busy highway, lies the scene of a massacre that occurred more ...

Scientists have delivered the most detailed assessment yet of a set of disputed lead books known as the Jordan codices. With debate centered on whether they could date back to the early Christian ...

AMMAN — The Department of Antiquities (DoA) on Thursday announced that the lead codices it seized with the help of security authorities around seven years ago have not been proven to be authentic so ...

Seventy metal books allegedly discovered in a cave in Jordan have been hailed as the earliest Christian documents. Dating them to mere decades after Jesus' death, scholars have called the "lead ...

AT DAYBREAK, after prayers in the ancient basilica, Father Justin, the Texan-born librarian of St Catherine's monastery in Sinai, doffs his clerical head-dress and begins operating a Swiss camera that ...

Seventy metal books allegedly discovered in a cave in Jordan have been hailed as the earliest Christian documents. Dating them to mere decades after Jesus' death, scholars have called the "lead ...