In December 1945, a farmer named Muhammad Ali al-Samman rode his camel to the foot of a cliff near the town of Nag Hammadi, in the south of Egypt. He and his brothers had come to dig up soft, rich soil to spread on their fields. While they were digging, they hit something hard. It was a big clay jar, about as tall as a man's arm is long, with its mouth sealed shut.
He was afraid to open it at first, because he thought a jinn, a spirit, might be shut inside. Then he thought there might be gold in it, and he broke it open with his pick. There was no gold. Inside were thirteen old books, made of papyrus pages and bound in leather covers.
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