Scientists have found out texts that are believed to be the oldest copy of a gospel, the Gospel of Mark that was written during 90 A.D.

This newly found first century Gospels, written on Papyrus, have good story. At present, the most ancient copies of Gospel date back to 101 to 200 A.D. The people of Egypt was used to utilize the papyrus sheets again with already written Gospel texts to make masks for mummy, and it is mainly because of the fact that papyrus was very costly.

The main ingredients of the masks used to be papyrus, paint and glue. Scientist used a recently invented technique to take out the glue keeping the ink intact. They did this so that fragments could be read.

"We're recovering ancient documents from the first, second and third centuries that includes classical Greek texts, business papers, various mundane papers, and personal letters", said Craig Evans, a professor at Acadia Divinity College, Nova Scotia.

Researchers noted that some of the business papers and letter have dates on them. But this technique of ungluing has a major drawback because the masks are being destroyed while recovering the texts.

The first volume of these first-century texts is possible to publish later this year. A lecturer at the University of Manchester, Roberta Mazza, has protested against this damage in his blog.

Back in 2012, some information about this work was disclosed and controversies were caused. A professor at Harvard University, Karen King, was the first one to speak about Gospel, written in Coptic, an old language from Egypt.