Scientists have discovered the oldest surviving copy of a written account of the childhood of Jesus in a forgotten and decaying manuscript.

A recently deciphered manuscript, dating back to the 4th or 5th century and stored in a university library in Hamburg, Germany, has been identified as the earliest surviving account of Jesus ...

A newly translated manuscript has now been confirmed to have been the oldest one about Jesus Christ’s childhood. The document was identified as the earliest surviving copy of the Infancy Gospel ...

The papyrus fragment recently found to be the oldest surviving copy of the apocryphal Infancy Gospel of Thomas, a written account of Jesus' childhood.

A small, 1,600-year-old papyrus fragment discovered in a German archive has been revealed to contain the earliest known copy of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, an early Christian text describing the ...

THE earliest record of Jesus’s childhood has been found in a 2,000-year-old parchment that tells an incredible story not found in the Bible. Scrawled on an ancient Egyptian manuscript, it ...

Researchers in Germany have decoded what they say is the oldest-ever manuscript detailing Jesus Christ's life as a child. The papyrus manuscript dates back more than 1,600 years old to the 4th or ...

It has been identified by researchers as the earliest surviving writings about Jesus Christ's childhood. Photo courtesy of Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg/Public Domain Mark 1.0 ...

The 1,600-year-old manuscript had sat unnoticed for decades at a German university. Experts say it may be the oldest written document detailing Jesus’ childhood.

1,600-year-old fragment identified to be oldest written account of Jesus Christ's childhood ...