Discovery of ‘oldest’ Koran stirs new passions in British city

LONDON --  For decades, an ancient relic from the Middle East was unknowingly tucked away in an unlikely place: A library in the British Midlands, thousands of miles from its origins. But when a PhD researcher at the University of Birmingham decided to take a closer look at the pages of parchment, written on sheep […]











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