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Ancient Greek Scroll May Reveal Religious Secrets


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ATHENS, Greece

A collection of charred scraps kept in a Greek museum's storerooms are all that remains of what archaeologists say is Europe's oldest surviving book _ which may hold a key to understanding early monotheistic beliefs.

More than four decades after the Derveni papyrus was found in a 2,400- year-old nobleman's grave in northern Greece, researchers said Thursday they are close to uncovering new text _ through high-tech digital analysis _ from the blackened fragments left after the manuscript was burnt on its owner's funeral pyre.

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the Derveni papyrus was found in a 2,400- year-old nobleman's grave

About time he died by the sounds of it.

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