![]() ![]() They were written on goat skin in the early Ethiopian language of Ge’ez. The survival of the Gospels is incredible considering the country has been under Muslim invasion, Italian invasion and a fire in the 1930s destroyed the monastery’s church. ![]() The incredible relic has been kept ever since in the Garima Monastery near Adwa in the north of the country, which is in the Tigray region at 7,000 feet.Įxperts believe it is also the earliest example of book binding still attached to the original pages. A page from the Garima Gospels – the world’s oldest Christian book found in a remote monastery in Ethiopia
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