London, March 30 (IANS) A total of 70 books, made of lead and dating back to over 2,000 years, have been found in a cave in Jordan.
These could be some of the -earliest Christian scriptures, and a major discovery in Christian history, experts said.
‘We are looking at a very important and significant discovery, maybe the most important discovery in the history of archaeology,’ Ziad al-Saad, of Jor-dan’s Department of Antiquities, was quoted as saying by the Daily Express.
David Elkington, head of a British team trying to get the books into a museum in -Jordan, said: ‘It’s a breathtaking thought that we have held these objects that might have been held by the early saints of the Church.’
