Ali said that they had come from the White Monastery near Sohâg, but it seems more likely that they were found in the ruins of the Monastery of the Vinedresser, near the third pyramid of Giza in the Nile Delta.
फ्रीयर ने, जो एक धनी अमरीकी उद्योगपति और कला संग्राहक था, मिस्र के गीज़ा शहर में, अली नाम के एक अरबी व्यापारी से कुछेक पुरानी पाण्डुलिपियाँ ख़रीद लीं ।