[mandazi]

>The Times of London reported that radiocarbon dating carried out by experts at the University of Oxford says the fragments were produced between the years 568 A.D. and 645 A.D. Muhammad is generally believed to have lived between 570 A.D. and 632 A.D. The man known to Muslims as The Prophet is thought to have founded Islam sometime after 610 A.D., with the first Muslim community established at Medina, in present-day Saudi Arabia, in 622 A.D.

When they test the document, how do they know the difference of when the document was created versus when the actual document was written on?

For example, paper could be created before the paper is actually used to write on.

[gilgoomesh]

> Small cautioned that the carbon dating was only done on the parchment in the fragments, and not the actual ink

[virmundi]

For other news sources the researchers estimate that given the importance of the Koran it would have used the newest products. This is, of course, wild speculation. There is no way to confirm or deny that the original Korans were written on new parchments.