LONDON – The University of Birmingham says new scientific tests on a Quran parchment place it close to the time of the Prophet Muhammad. The university said Wednesday that radiocarbon dating has ...

These Quran manuscripts were brought to England ... There were found by a researcher at the University of Birmingham,. Photo courtesy Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham.

LONDON — The University of Birmingham says new scientific tests on a Quran parchment place it close to the time of the Prophet Muhammad. A university assistant shows fragments of an old Quran at ...

LONDON >> The University of Birmingham says new scientific tests on a Quran parchment place it close to the time of the Prophet Muhammad. The university said Wednesday that radiocarbon dating has ...

LONDON-- The University of Birmingham said Wednesday that scientific tests prove a Quran manuscript in its collection is one of the oldest known and may have been written close to the time of the ...

The University of Birmingham in the U.K. says it has discovered a portion of a Quran manuscript from about the time of the Prophet Muhammad, making it one of the earliest versions of Islam's holy ...

“This manuscript could well have been written just after he died,” said David Thomas, a professor of Christianity and Islam at the University of Birmingham. “Parts of the Quran that are ...

Marie Sviergula, conservator of the University of Birmingham holds a Quran manuscript in Birmingham England on July 22, 2015. The Quran manuscript has been carbon dated to close to the time of the ...

Researchers at the University of Birmingham in England said Wednesday that they had discovered part of what is likely one of the world’s oldest manuscripts of the Quran. The fragment is said to ...

A Quran manuscript held at the University of Birmingham represents one of the oldest pieces of textual evidence of the Islamic holy book, according to radiocarbon analyses done by scientists.

We're going to hear now about pages of the Quran that are almost as old as Islam itself. Researchers at the University of Birmingham in England have discovered these fragments in one of their ...