Ancient Psalms Found Preserved in Irish Bog

July 26, 2006 4:00 PM


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Detail from the recently discovered book of psalms, which is more than 1,000 years old.National Museum of Ireland

Some people call it the Irish equivalent of the Dead Sea Scrolls: the discovery last week of fragments of an ancient book of psalms that had been buried in a bog for centuries.

Robert Siegel talks with Pat Wallace, director of the National Museum of Ireland, about the recent discovery in the midlands of Ireland. The text, which survived in a peat bog, is thought to have been written more than 1,000 years ago.

Source: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5584495

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