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12. I cringed when Hanks' character exclaimed, "Some of these books are 2,000 years old."

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Sun Apr 1, 2018, 06:01 AM

Apr 2018

I am going by memory and paraphrasing the line, but the Langdon did utter words to the effect that some of the archives he was gazing at appeared to him to be 2,000 years old. The archives were those which had been preserved by the secret cult from the inception of Christianity. Of course, the scrolls and other writing media from the early centuries of the Christian era disintegrated well over a thousand years ago. Only fragments of them now remain. For the most part, the oldest extant Christian manuscripts, which are copies of copies of the original writings, date to the twelfth century, which marked the beginning of the age of paper medium.

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