Oxford University Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit

'Oldest' Koran fragments found in Birmingham University

What may be the world?s oldest Quran fragments have been found by the University of Birmingham, the BBC has reported.

Radiocarbon dating found the manuscript to be at least 1,370 years old, making it among the earliest currently in existence.

The pages of the Muslim holy text had remained unrecognized in the university?s library for almost a century.