Egypt
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0307/p01s02-lire.html
- Missing Items Recovered From Cairo Museum
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) With photos. In yet another strange twist to the ongoing saga of the looting of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, two more of the stolen pieces have turned up. Where? Well, that’s the strange part – they were found...
- Egyptian Papyrus Found In Irish Bog
physorg.com The papyrus in the lining of the Egyptian-style leather cover of the 1,200-year-old manuscript, "potentially represents the first tangible connection between early Irish Christianity and the Middle Eastern Coptic Church", the Museum said....
- 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...
- More Re The Gospel Of Judas
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/790/fr2.htmNevine 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...
- 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...
Egypt
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 illegally smuggled from Egypt. Under international law the current owners don't have legal title to the manuscript, because it is classed as stolen: "When the Gospel of Judas first surfaced in Geneva in 1983, scholars wondered if the mysterious text could trigger a reappraisal of history's most infamous traitor. They never found out, however, because they couldn't afford the $3 million price tag on this second-century gnostic tale. Instead, the fragile pages vanished into private hands and set off on a 23-year, intercontinental journey through fist-pounding negotiations and even periods, reportedly, stuffed inside a Greek beauty's purse. . . . But the saga may be just beginning. That's because thieves apparently lifted the manuscript from the Egyptian desert, kicking off decades of illicit trafficking - and an ethical dilemma: Is it right to pay for and publish stolen documents for the purpose of spreading knowledge?"
On the one hand, the knowledge contained in the manuscript becomes public property, but on the other, a value is created for manuscripts acquired under similar circumstances. See the story on the above web page.
- Missing Items Recovered From Cairo Museum
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) With photos. In yet another strange twist to the ongoing saga of the looting of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, two more of the stolen pieces have turned up. Where? Well, that’s the strange part – they were found...
- Egyptian Papyrus Found In Irish Bog
physorg.com The papyrus in the lining of the Egyptian-style leather cover of the 1,200-year-old manuscript, "potentially represents the first tangible connection between early Irish Christianity and the Middle Eastern Coptic Church", the Museum said....
- 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...
- More Re The Gospel Of Judas
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/790/fr2.htmNevine 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...
- 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...