How was Thomas discovered?

How was Thomas discovered?

The only complete copy of the Gospel was found at the base of a cliff near Nag Hammadi in 1945. The pot, about a metre tall, contained 52 tractates or texts in 13 leather bound volumes which included the Thomas Gospel. The Gospel is written in black ink and on both sides of the papyrus sheets. It was written at a time when writing was much more primitive so there is no punctuation and no space between the words. 

In 1897 and 1903 three Thomas fragments were found at an archaeological dig in Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. They were written in the original Greek and correlated closely to the coptic verson found at Nag Hammadi. The three fragments represent separate and distinct copies of the Gospel and suggest that it was freely read and available in the emerging Jesus movement.