Gospel of Mark Fragments Reportedly Found; Possibly Oldest NT Artifacts, Christian News
I find this discovery fascinating. Hopefully more first century versions of the gospels will be discovered. I suppose it is a little early to say whether or not the information is accurate because its so recent and a lot of time there is media hype. I hope the age turns out to be as old, or older, than the article says.
Wallace explained that the fragment was dated by one of the world's leading paleographers. The oldest manuscript that had Mark in it was Papyrus 45 (P45), from the early third century (c. AD 200–250). This new fragment would predate P45 by 100 to 150 years, almost certainly placing it in the first century and making it the oldest of its kind, according to the professor. The other oldest known manuscript of the New Testament has been P52 (discovered in 1934), a small fragment from John's Gospel, dated to the first half of the second century.