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The last paragraph says: Small cautioned that the carbon dating was only done on the parchment in the fragments, and not the actual ink, but added
by nsns 11y ago
The last paragraph says:
Small cautioned that the carbon dating was only done
on the parchment in the fragments, and not the actual
ink, but added "If the dates apply to the parchment
and the ink, and the dates across the entire range
apply, then the Koran — or at least portions of it
— predates Mohammed, and moves back the years that
an Arabic literary culture is in place well into
the 500s."
Nothing to report yet then?