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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: Medieval Christian Book Discovered in Ireland Bog


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This thousand-year-old Book of Psalms was discovered by a construction worker in a peat bog at an undisclosed location in central Ireland. Experts believe the remarkably well preserved text may be from one of the country's early Christian monasteries.

Photograph courtesy National Museum of Ireland