[4] In 1996, Zaza Aleksidze of the Centre of Manuscripts in Tbilisi, Georgia, discovered a palimpsest[5] at Saint Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai, Egypt, with an unknown script.

[9] Specialized x-ray equipment was used, which made it possible to read the Caucasian Albanian palimpsest texts in their entirety.

[10] A list of Caucasian Albanian month names, which survived in a number of medieval manuscripts, gave one of the clues to the language.

[12] The deciphered text of the lectionary includes excerpts from the Hebrew Bible (Psalms and Isaiah)[2] and from the New Testament (Acts of the Apostles the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, and the epistles of Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Hebrews, 2 Peter, 1 John and James).

Sinai, the most famous samples of Caucasian Albanian inscriptions were found in 1949 during excavations in Mingachevir region, Azerbaijan.