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In December 1945, two brothers looking for a place to rest found an urn full of papyruses in a cave in the region of Hamra Dom, in Upper Egypt. Instead of telling the local authorities - as the law demanded - they decided to sell them singly in the market for antiquities, thus avoiding attracting the government's attention. The boys' mother, fearing 'negative energies', burned several of the newly discovered papyruses.
The following year, for reasons history does not record, the brothers quarrelled. Attributing this quarrel to those supposed 'negative energies', the mother handed over the manuscripts to a priest, who sold them to the Coptic Museum in Cairo. There, the papyruses were given the name they still bear to this day: Manuscripts