Testaments of Time: The Search for Lost Manuscripts and RecordsKnopf, 1965 - 590 من الصفحات Panorama of the astonishing work done to retrieve and restore ancient texts, of the scholar-adventurers who gave us vast new knowledge of the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Mexico, and Central Asia, and of the origins of the Bible. |
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الصفحة 290
... Cairo to join the priors of other Sinaitic monasteries in electing a new archbishop to succeed the hundred - year - old Archbishop Constantine , who had died . Tischendorf decided to follow the prior to Cairo , taking along warm letters ...
... Cairo to join the priors of other Sinaitic monasteries in electing a new archbishop to succeed the hundred - year - old Archbishop Constantine , who had died . Tischendorf decided to follow the prior to Cairo , taking along warm letters ...
الصفحة 355
... Cairo Geniza , whence several of the most precious fragments of the Leningrad collection are be- lieved to have come . In 1888 , Elkan Nathan Adler , the brother of the English chief rabbi , made his first visit to the Old Cairo ...
... Cairo Geniza , whence several of the most precious fragments of the Leningrad collection are be- lieved to have come . In 1888 , Elkan Nathan Adler , the brother of the English chief rabbi , made his first visit to the Old Cairo ...
الصفحة 364
... Cairo . With these credentials and a considerable amount of social affability and drive , Schechter embarked in December 1896 on his journey to Egypt . The country of the Nile had for him none of the attractions that a few years earlier ...
... Cairo . With these credentials and a considerable amount of social affability and drive , Schechter embarked in December 1896 on his journey to Egypt . The country of the Nile had for him none of the attractions that a few years earlier ...
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Petrarch | 3 |
Rolls and a Villa | 55 |
The Papyrus of Egypt | 79 |
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