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Created by: * Julia Manach, 2004-03-01 14:52:58

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Villa of the Papyri (14 posts)

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The difficulties involved in unrolling, reading, and interpreting the texts of Villa de Papyri

The Philodemus Project (* Neima Nebet, Mar 1, 2004 - 14:52 )

Also... (* Pia YellowBird, Mar 1, 2004 - 11:52 )

Really? I hadn't heard that! (* Laurels Curius, Feb 27, 2004 - 10:31 )

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In the news (1 posts)

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Ancient Scripts Archaelogical news!

Cliff Inscriptions: Messages from the Past (* Julia Manach, Feb 25, 2004 - 11:20 )

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The Qumran site (1 posts)

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The scrolls and scroll fragments recovered in the Qumran environs represent a voluminous body of Jewish documents, a veritable "library", dating from the third century B.C.E. to 68 C.E.

Scrolls from the Dead Sea (* Julia Manach, Feb 25, 2004 - 11:04 )

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Nag Hammadi site (1 posts)

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The Nag Hammadi Library, a collection of thirteen ancient codices containing over fifty texts, was discovered in upper Egypt in 1945. This immensely important discovery includes a large number of primary Gnostic scriptures -- texts once thought to have been entirely destroyed during the early Christian struggle to define "orthodoxy" -- scriptures such as the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip, and the Gospel of Truth....

The Nag Hammadi Library online (* Julia Manach, Feb 25, 2004 - 10:50 )

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