these thomasine christians and destroyed them, burnt them. >> the history of early christianity in india, recorded on palm leaf manuscript, was put to the flame. >> much of the documents of the saint thomas christians were burnt at the time, so they were all destroyed. >> a team of archivists are hunting down the few surviving palm leaf records. >> it's an all-india phenomena, palm leaf as writing material because that was what was available readily in kerala, unlike in the middle east, where you would have parchments or scrolls and paper. >> many of their inscriptions are written in syriac, the language of many early christians, close to aramaic, the language spoken by jesus and