6th century Georgian Bible found in Dagestan

Bible written in Georgian was discovered in Dagestan. Specialists of historic, archeological and ethnological institute found it when making digitalized versions of other historic documents. The bible is written in old Georgian Asomtavruli script and dates back to the 6th century.

Specialists left without attention a place where the bible was rested. In fact, it was lying under the document written by the Arab scholars that date back to the 11th century. As specialists explain, it was very hard, if not impossible to see, that under the Arabian language documents were other materials.

An employee says that they date document based on paper and writing type. “While studying Georgian document I found out, that material for paper was different and did not look similar to those I have been working on for the last 20 years”, says Shamil Shikhaliev, specialist who found the bible.

Georgian bible is the oldest one among those that were discovered in Dagestan. Hand written bible will be rested with other Georgian language documents in Dagestan. Digitalized version of the newly discovered bible is already prepared and will soon be available for audience.

https://www.georgianjournal.ge/culture/35728-georgian-bible-discovered-in-dagestan.html