Forensic Discovery: Washington Codex Manuscripts of the Four
Gospels Were Penned and dated in First Century A.D. Lee W.
Woodard History and Content of |Meet the Author:||Other Books by
Dr. Woodard||Order Page| WASHINGTON CODEX FOUND IN 1906 In
November of 1906, a parchment codex (sheepskin paged, bound
book) with painted wooden covers was dug up from the sands of
Egypt.It was found in sand filled ruins of a city vacated about
200 A.D. at a place called Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimet, or Dimai),
and sold to Charles Lang Freer, an American antiquities
collector who did not fully realize the importance of what he
was buying. Ruins of ancient Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimet) Photograph
copyrighted by Jimmy Dunn and used via his permission granted to
Lee W. Woodard. This city was vacated in approximately 200 A.D.
--When nearby north shores of Lake Karoun withdrew from the city
by a few miles because the lake’s levels drastically fell, for
some as yet unknown reason. Universal testimony says that Codex
W was dug up here in 1906.