Documents from a collection of discarded religious Jewish, discovered inside caves in a Taliban stronghold in northern Afghanistan, which date back from the 10th century are displayed to the media during a press conference on January 3, 2013, at the national library in Jerusalem. (AFP Photo / Menahem Kahana)
Collection Of Ancient Jewish Manuscripts Found In Afghanistan Fox Cave -- RT
Israel's National Library has acquired 1,000-year-old Jewish ID revealed in Afghanistan. The collection of 29 pages includes writings by Saadia Gaon, and has been compared in weight to the 19th-century discovery of the Cairo Genizah.
The rare ID were revealed by villagers go up to the Iran-Uzbekistan border in a cave alleged to be the interior of a kin of foxes. The manuscripts include religious writings, as well as calligraphy and civil contracts in print in Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic and Persian, and in a variety of alphabets.
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My Comment: I am impressed that these documents are still in good shape .... after 1,000 years.
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