Possibly world's oldest Quran found in British library

A detail of a fragment of a Koran manuscript is seen through a magnifying glass in the library at the University of Birmingham in Britain July 22, 2015. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls

Detail of a fragment of a Quran manuscript, thought to be one of the oldest in the world, is seen through a magnifying glass in the library at the University of Birmingham in Britain. Photo: Reuters/Peter Nicholls

Fragments of a Quran manuscript found in a British university library are from one of the world's oldest surviving copies of the Islamic text, and may even have been written by someone who knew Prophet Mohammad, researchers say on July 21.