Egyptian papyrus found in ancient Irish bog

AFP ^ | 06 Sep 2010 | AFP

[Palter]

Picture The psalter prior to conservation

'Irish Dead Sea Scrolls' in bog

[Palter]

Bog book, ping.

[massgopguy]

Okay, who wants to bring up the fact that the Egyptians invented beer.......

[a fool in paradise]

Must’ve been stashed there by the Sandy Berger of his day.

[oh8eleven]

Egyptian papyrus found in ancient Irish bog ...

[Ro_Thunder]

Going from pic 2 to pic 1 is an amazing job of restoration! Wow!

[catman67]

Dig deeper. Maybe they’ll find BO’s birth certificate!

[Docbarleypop]

I dug for a month and a half in Ireland and all i found was some slag!

[brytlea]

Interesting and cool, but what does it mean?

[SMARTY]

B I N G O !!!!

[Palter]

The first tangible link between early Christianity in Ireland and the Middle-Eastern Coptic Church.

[Crapgame]

Off hand I’d say the newsies are trying to make much ado about nothing. The Romans had long established outposts throughout Britain and it would not have been out of the realm of possibility for them to establish outposts in Ireland. Rather than coming from some previously unknown Egyptian trade, I’d wager that the psalm book written in Latin as it is, probably came from the Romans. Especially since the Romans imported so many trade goods from Egypt.

[brytlea]

I guess I didn’t know there was supposed to be a connection. I always thought the Catholic Church was the connection.

[rahbert]

Wonder if the psalter had ever belonged to St Patrick or
one of his acolytes?

[camle]

if you dig deeper you might find the remains of the mummy. but be careful - he ain’t dead.

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[spyone]

Except the Romans were long gone by then.

[spyone]

Except the Romans were long gone by then.

[Renfield]

BEST.....GRAPHIC......EVER.......

[eleni121]

The Greeks had contacts all over long before the Romans and far after... into Byzantium.