10 May, 2005

666-50 (It's Only Numbers)

It was revealed a few days ago that 666 is not, in fact, the number of the beast. Apparently technology has advanced to such an extent as to be able to read writing from some very degraded papyrus vintage c. 500 C.E. The passage from the Book of Revelation here is the oldest known copy and it reads 616 instead of 666. This means that Bruce Dickinson has some lyrics to rewrite.

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