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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alphabet American ancient antiquity Arabic archaeology Asia Aztec Bible Biblical Boccaccio Brasseur British Museum Buddhist Budge Cairo Canaanite cave century A.D. Chinese Christian Cicero classical Codex Codex Sinaiticus codices collection copy COURTESY Dead Sea scrolls deciphered desert Diatessaron discovery documents early edition Egypt Egyptian evidence excavations Fayum fragments Geniza German Gospels Greek Grenfell and Hunt Hebrew Herculaneum hieroglyphic Humboldt Hyperides Ibid Indian inscriptions Jewish Karaite Kenyon Kharoshthi Khotan known Landa language later Latin learned letters literary literature London lost manu manuscripts Maya ment Mexican Mexico Mixtec monastery monks mummy native Nuttall Old Testament once original Oxyrhynchus papyri papyrus rolls parchment Petrarch Petrie Poggio Popol Vuh Qumran Ras Shamra records religious Roman ruins Schechter scholars script Shapira Sinai Sinaiticus Stein Syriac tablets texts textual tion Tischendorf treasure Ugarit writing written wrote York Yucatán Zelia Nuttall