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Jordan metal 'books' could hold vital details about early Christianity.They could be the earliest Christian writing in existence, surviving almost 2,000 years in a Jordanian cave. They could, just possibly, change our understanding of how Jesus was crucified and resurrected, and how Christianity was born.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12888421
Wow, that is quite a find (unless it's a fake!). The earliest Christian symbols that we know of date to the 3rd century, so if this book has Christian symbols in it that pre-date this, it would hold a lot of significance.
Update:Exclusive: Early Christian Lead Codices Now Called Fakes
Slowly, though, more and more questions have arisen about the authenticity of the codices, whose credit-card-size pages are cast in lead and bound together by lead rings. Today, an Aramaic translator has completed his analysis of the artifacts, and has found what he says is incontrovertible evidence that they are fakes.
In Archaeology, if it's too good to be true, it probably is.
I thought you held Archaeology in despite somewhat?
In Archaeology, if it's too good to be true, it probably is.
I thought you held Archaeology in despite somewhat?
Exactly. That's why I said what I did. Hoaxes have ruined Archaeology.
You really think that? I guess I don't see what the alternative is. If archaeology is “ruined”, then do we just leave all those artifacts in the ground and forget about them?
