The researchers suspect that the copy of the gospel was created as a writing exercise in a monastery or school, possibly by a monk training to become a scribe. "In the case of our papyrus ...

The result is a wonderful surface for writing on - papyrus went on being used across the Mediterranean until about a thousand years ago, and indeed gave most European languages their very word for ...

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