Egypt
An eighth century manuscript turned up four years ago in an Irish bog preserved by the chemicals in the peat. The manuscript known as the Faddan More Psalter has preserved about fifteen percent of its Latin contents which was created on papyrus with an Egyptian leather cover.
- Missing Fragments Of Papyrus Found In Australia
ABC News With Video Missing fragments from the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead have been uncovered deep in the stores of the Queensland Museum. The manuscript belonged to a high-ranking Egyptian official who lived in 1420 BC. It was believed...
- Online: Ancient Egyptian Chariot Trappings Rediscovered
Nature (Jo Marchant) Excellent five page article, with photos. Many thanks to David Krueger for the link. The beautifully preserved leather trappings of an ancient Egyptian chariot have been rediscovered in a storeroom of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo....
- Working On Coptic Archives
Al Ahram Weekly Nevine El-Aref reports on the completion of the first inventory to assess the current condition of manuscripts stored for almost a century in the Coptic Museum archives The Coptic Museum archives, considered to be the world's most...
- Ownership Of Stolen Manuscript
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0307/p01s02-lire.html A fascinating article about the ethics involved in buying/using stolen items, written as the result of a decision by The National Geographic Society to publish a translation of the Gospel of Judas, which...
- Egyptians’ Stone-age Roots
http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/051217_egyptfrm.htmAn article about a recent study by Joel Irish into the origins of the Badarian. "In the study, Joel Irish of the University of Alaska Fairbanks analyzed similarities among teeth from almost 1,000...
Egypt
Ancient Egyptian Book from Irish Bog
An eighth century manuscript turned up four years ago in an Irish bog preserved by the chemicals in the peat. The manuscript known as the Faddan More Psalter has preserved about fifteen percent of its Latin contents which was created on papyrus with an Egyptian leather cover.
- Missing Fragments Of Papyrus Found In Australia
ABC News With Video Missing fragments from the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead have been uncovered deep in the stores of the Queensland Museum. The manuscript belonged to a high-ranking Egyptian official who lived in 1420 BC. It was believed...
- Online: Ancient Egyptian Chariot Trappings Rediscovered
Nature (Jo Marchant) Excellent five page article, with photos. Many thanks to David Krueger for the link. The beautifully preserved leather trappings of an ancient Egyptian chariot have been rediscovered in a storeroom of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo....
- Working On Coptic Archives
Al Ahram Weekly Nevine El-Aref reports on the completion of the first inventory to assess the current condition of manuscripts stored for almost a century in the Coptic Museum archives The Coptic Museum archives, considered to be the world's most...
- Ownership Of Stolen Manuscript
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0307/p01s02-lire.html A fascinating article about the ethics involved in buying/using stolen items, written as the result of a decision by The National Geographic Society to publish a translation of the Gospel of Judas, which...
- Egyptians’ Stone-age Roots
http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/051217_egyptfrm.htmAn article about a recent study by Joel Irish into the origins of the Badarian. "In the study, Joel Irish of the University of Alaska Fairbanks analyzed similarities among teeth from almost 1,000...