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On palm leaf manuscript was put to the flame. >> much of the documents of the st. thomas christians were burned at the time. so there were all destroyed. >> the team of arc kind offists are hunting down the few surviving records. >> palm leaf with 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, close to aramaic, the language spoken by jesus and thomas. so far, the oldest dates to 1291.