Fragment from the World's Oldest Bible Found in Egypt

It may surprise you to learn that we have more copies of the ancient Bible than of any other ancient book in history. But scholars agree the thousands of copies we have are not NEARLY enough as we look to reconstruct the original words that Moses and others put down. Recently, another piece of the puzzle was found as a British Academic found a new fragment of one of the oldest Bible known - the Codex Sinaiticus.

Nikolas Sarris spotted a previously unseen section of the Codex Sinaiticus, which dates from about AD350, as he was trawling through photographs of manuscripts in the library of St Catherine's Monastery in Egypt.

The Codex, handwritten in Greek on animal skin, is the earliest known version of the Bible. Leaves from the priceless tome are divided between four institutions, including St Catherine's Monastery and the British Library, which has held the largest section of the ancient Bible since the Soviet Union sold its collection to Britain in 1933.

Academics from Britain, America, Egypt and Russia collaborated to put the entire Codex online this year but new fragments of the book are occasionally rediscovered.