Egypt
- Looking Back At 2010
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Identifying Tutankhamun's lineage, retrieving the gospel of Judas, unearthing the cachette of Amenhotep III's statues in Luxor, the issuance of a new antiquities law and celebrations for the centennial of the...
- 4th Century Bible Online
Egypt Daily Star News Thanks to Mark Morgan for pointing out that the above link was pointing to the wrong place entirely! I have now corrected it and it goes straight to the article. One of the world's oldest Bibles, the Codex Sinaiticus, discovered...
- More On The Sekhmet Statues
http://tinyurl.com/r6fcs (National Geographic) A fairly short National Geographic summary of the discovery of hte Sekhmet statues at the Temple of Amenhotep III.Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes...
- 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...
- Oldest Christian Manuscript
A Christian codex written in 411 a.d. has had its missing last page found in a monasteries ancient olive oil storeroom. In the 11th century a monk worried that the last page of the codex would become lost so he recorded the inscription on the last page...
Egypt
More re the Gospel of Judas
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/790/fr2.htm
Nevine El-Aref describes the Gospel, its discovery and the background to its return to Egypt: "The gospel of Jesus's favourite disciple, Judas, was on show yesterday in Washington's National Geographic Museum before its return to Egypt where it was found 30 years ago. The fragile codex -- made up of 13 papyrus leaves -- has been restored with a two-million-dollar fund from the National Geographic Society (NGS) and the Waitt Institute for Historical Discovery. Its most recent owners, the Basel-based Maecenas Foundation for Ancient Art (MFAA), will now hand the codex over to the Coptic Museum in Old Cairo."
Thanks very much to Jen Mason for the information that the full translation of the codex is available on the National Geographic website, and includes comprehensive background information and a photograph of the codex prior to its restoration:
http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/lostgospel/document.html
Thanks very much to Jen Mason for the information that the full translation of the codex is available on the National Geographic website, and includes comprehensive background information and a photograph of the codex prior to its restoration:
http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/lostgospel/document.html
- Looking Back At 2010
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Identifying Tutankhamun's lineage, retrieving the gospel of Judas, unearthing the cachette of Amenhotep III's statues in Luxor, the issuance of a new antiquities law and celebrations for the centennial of the...
- 4th Century Bible Online
Egypt Daily Star News Thanks to Mark Morgan for pointing out that the above link was pointing to the wrong place entirely! I have now corrected it and it goes straight to the article. One of the world's oldest Bibles, the Codex Sinaiticus, discovered...
- More On The Sekhmet Statues
http://tinyurl.com/r6fcs (National Geographic) A fairly short National Geographic summary of the discovery of hte Sekhmet statues at the Temple of Amenhotep III.Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes...
- 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...
- Oldest Christian Manuscript
A Christian codex written in 411 a.d. has had its missing last page found in a monasteries ancient olive oil storeroom. In the 11th century a monk worried that the last page of the codex would become lost so he recorded the inscription on the last page...