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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Petrarch | 3 |
Rolls and a Villa | 55 |
The Papyrus of Egypt | 79 |
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