Specialists used CT scans to decode the text

The text is called the “Frankfurt silver inscription” and is the oldest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps between 230 and 270 AD.

Around that time, the only acceptable religions in Europe were Judaism and paganism, according to the experts.

The ancient finding was “digitally unrolled” by specialists from the Leibniz Center for Archaeology, and computer tomography (CT) scans were used to decode and translate the 18-line text.

“In the name of Saint Titus. Holy, holy, holy! In the name of Jesus Christ, Son of God! The Lord of the world resists with [strengths] all attacks [or setbacks]. The God grants entry to well-being. May this means of salvation protect the man who surrenders himself to the will of the Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, since before Jesus Christ every knee bows: those in heaven, those on earth and those under the earth, and every tongue confesses (Jesus Christ),” the translation reads, according to the Daily Mail.

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