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1,000yo manuscripts written by ancient Silk Road family found in Afghanistan

15th June, 2016 · admin

ancient_manuscriptRT: Nearly 100 mysterious manuscripts thought to be 1,000 years old and written by a Jewish family that lived along the ancient Silk Road have been discovered in an Afghan cave. Scholars and historians are excited about this new cache of documents, which was purchased by Israeli antiquities dealer Lenny Wolfe six months ago. He came across them as part of an ongoing search for the “Afghan Genizah,” a reference to the Cairo Genizah collection of 300,000 Jewish manuscript fragments discovered in a synagogue storeroom in Egypt. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in History | Tags: Jews in Afghanistan |
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