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$\"\"$ <\/a> Brent Searle from U.K. (i.e. the University of Kentucky is in the center of the picture and heads the team). He\u2019s hoping maybe one of these scrolls has a Christian text on it. If so, it would be the earliest Christian text ever discovered. More likely it will be some Greek or Latin classical text. Here is the remarkable story itself\u2026.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/10\/05\/us\/herculaneum-scrolls-scn-trnd\/index.html<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"