Download or read book The Stolen Papyrus written by Cate M. Turner and published by Wandering Scarab Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leila's first excavation in Egypt is off to the perfect start. Until the man who killed her father joins the team. Among whispers of a papyrus that mysteriously vanished, Leila must find clues to the whereabouts of an ancient tomb with the help of the man she can never trust. Secrets start to surface, revealing a deadly plot against them that goes back eight years to her father’s death. From the scorching sands of the Saqqara necropolis to the dark, winding tunnels below, Leila must give up the secret her father died to protect. If she doesn’t… she might share her father’s fate. If you like gripping adventures, tangled mysteries, and just enough clean romance to sweep you off your feet, then you’ll love the first installment in Cate M. Turner’s series, The Artifact Guardians. Buy The Stolen Papyrus to start the adventure today!
Download or read book Stolen Fragments written by Roberta Mazza and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-17 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, announced a recent purchase of a Biblical artefact—a fragment of papyrus, just discovered, carrying lines from Paul's letter to the Romans, and dated to the second century CE. Noted scholar Roberta Mazza was stunned. When was this piece discovered, and how could Green acquire such a rare item? The answers, which Mazza spent the next ten years uncovering, came as a shock: the fragment had come from a famous collection held at Oxford University, and its rightful owners had no idea it had been sold. The letter to the Romans was not the only extraordinary piece in the Green collection. They soon announced newly recovered fragments from the Gospels and writings of Sappho. Mazza's quest to confirm the provenance of these priceless fragments revealed shadowy global networks that make big business of ancient manuscripts, from the Greens' Museum of the Bible and world-famous auction houses like Sotheby's and Christie's, to antique shops in Jerusalem and Istanbul, dealers on eBay, and into the collections of renowned museums and universities. Mazza's investigation forces us to ask what happens when the supposed custodians of our ancient heritage act in ways that threaten to destroy it. Stolen Fragments illuminates how these recent dealings are not isolated events, but the inevitable result of longstanding colonial practices and the outcome of generations of scholars who have profited from extracting the cultural heritage of places they claim they wish to preserve. Where is the boundary between protection and exploitation, between scholarship and larceny?
Download or read book The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Part II written by Bernard P Grenfell and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Download or read book God s Library written by Brent Nongbri and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative book from a highly original scholar, challenging much of what we know about early Christian manuscripts In this bold and groundbreaking book, Brent Nongbri provides an up-to-date introduction to the major collections of early Christian manuscripts and demonstrates that much of what we thought we knew about these books and fragments is mistaken. While biblical scholars have expended much effort in their study of the texts contained within our earliest Christian manuscripts, there has been a surprising lack of interest in thinking about these books as material objects with individual, unique histories. We have too often ignored the ways that the antiquities market obscures our knowledge of the origins of these manuscripts. Through painstaking archival research and detailed studies of our most important collections of early Christian manuscripts, Nongbri vividly shows how the earliest Christian books are more than just carriers of texts or samples of handwriting. They are three-dimensional archaeological artifacts with fascinating stories to tell, if we’re willing to listen.
Download or read book The Stolen Chalice written by J. Bryant VanCronkhite and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six teenagers try to solve the mystery of a church burglary and uncover some spiritual truths in the process.
Download or read book The Derveni Papyrus written by Marco Antonio Santamaría Álvarez and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries collects several articles on the Derveni Papyrus addressing its Orphic poem and the religious and philosophical ideas of the anonymous author of the text.
Download or read book The Clue in the Papyrus Scroll written by Gertrude Chandler Warner and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this all-new very special mini-series, the Aldens have been recruited by a secret society to return lost artifacts and treasures to their rightful locations—all around the world! The Aldens arrive in Egypt but the agent they're supposed to meet has gone missing! With the help of a puzzle in a papyrus scroll, they figure out their next mission—to deliver a tiny ancient pharaoh statue to an archaeologist at the Pyramids! Along the way they outwit a thief who tries to steal all the treasures. Their next mission is to England, to return one of the "crown jewels of Stonehenge." But someone is following them! Could it be someone from the powerful Argent family, ruthless antique collectors and bitter rivals of the Silvertons?
Download or read book Bible Nation written by Candida R. Moss and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the billionaire owners of Hobby Lobby are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to make America a “Bible nation” The Greens of Oklahoma City—the billionaire owners of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores—are spending hundreds of millions of dollars in an ambitious effort to increase the Bible’s influence on American society. In Bible Nation, Candida Moss and Joel Baden provide the first in-depth investigative account of the Greens’ sweeping Bible projects. Moss and Baden tell the story of the Greens’ efforts to place a Bible curriculum in public schools; their rapid acquisition of an unparalleled collection of biblical antiquities; their creation of a closely controlled group of scholars to study and promote the collection; and their construction of a $500 million Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. Revealing how all these initiatives promote a very particular set of beliefs about the Bible, the book raises serious questions about the trade in biblical antiquities, the integrity of academic research, and the place of private belief in public life.
Download or read book The Papyrus Basket written by Phyllis Young-Ae Kim and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author presents the English translation of Handong Global University's story. (Social Issues)
Download or read book The Lost Gospel written by Herbert Krosney and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping story of the Gospel of Judas Iscariot and the Herculean efforts to conserve it and parse its meaning for future generations.
Download or read book The Book of the Dead written by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Papyrus written by R. B. Parkinson and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most remarkable inventions of ancient Egypt was the making of paper from the papyrus plant. As early as 3000 BC sheets and rolls of papyrus provided an ideal surface for writing with reed pen and cakes of carbon black and red ochre pigment. Egyptian scribes used papyrus for administrative records, legal documents and letters of business and personal life. Equally important for our understanding of ancient Egypt, papyrus was used to record literary texts as well as compendia of knowledge such as the famous Rhind mathematical papyrus. Religious hymns and litanies are recorded, as are the great collections of formulae to secure life after death, the Book of the Dead.
Download or read book Papyrus written by M. L. Bierbrier and published by British Museum Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Theft of the 7 Ankhs written by Judith Page and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-02-04 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ancient Egypt a precious papyrus reveals the hiding place of a legendary scroll. Prince Setne Khaemwaset uses its secrets to create the magical collar of the seven ankhs. The ankhs are stolen, and a riddle is set that will disclose their locations. Ramose, a Time Lord, travels to the twentieth century to locate the riddle. One piece is in the Cairo Museum, and the other belongs to Vida Richardson Hardy in England. Her granddaughter Meri copies this fragment, and discovers a recipe for a magic mirror. Kenneth, Vida's grandson, identifies the second half of the riddle in Cairo. On a visit to London, he and Meri de-code the riddle, and venture back in time to Ancient Egypt to search for the seven ankhs. But Kenneth realizes that Meri's in danger – with the aid of the magic mirror, he goes to the rescue – but will he be able to save her?
Download or read book Heresy written by Donald Tarman and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-06 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searching for work in northern Mexico, Cian Kerensky is approached by an American woman who offers him a simple, two- or three-day job. Just pick up a package in a town an hour south and bring it to her at the border. Five hundred a day. Suspicious but needing the money, Cian makes the pickup. The package turns out to be Federico Arduino, a wizened priest in a ratty cassock. When they are hit by bullets and run off the road on their way north, Cian begins to realize the woman, in describing the task, had not been faithful to the truth. Federico, a disillusioned priest, has stolen an ancient papyrus, dangerous to the Church, from classified church archives in Rome and the Vatican has reacted by sending brutal security contractors after the priest with orders to recover a papyrus and return him to Rome.Federico wants the secrets embedded in the papyrus revealed to the world and he needs Cian's help to achieve his goal. A group of like-minded supporters maintains a mountain retreat in Colorado where the papyrus can be authenticated, converted to a readable narrative and printed for distribution. The problem is to get the papyrus to Colorado with the Vatican's resources and vast influence-including the gun-wielding security men-standing in the way.
Download or read book Stolen Legacy written by George G. M. James and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries the world has been misled about the original source of the Arts and Sciences; for centuries Socrates, Plato and Aristotle have been falsely idolized as models of intellectual greatness; and for centuries the African continent has been called the Dark Continent, because Europe coveted the honor of transmitting to the world, the Arts and Sciences. It is indeed surprising how, for centuries, the Greeks have been praised by the Western World for intellectual accomplishments which belong without a doubt to the Egyptians or the peoples of North Africa.
Download or read book Amherst Egyptian Papyrus 7 4 written by Pierpont Morgan Library and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legal document referring to a case of the robbery of gold, silver, and copper stolen from tombs in the Theban necropolis. Document contains the names of over one hundred persons of various trades and occupations implicated in the robbery. (Many names also appear in other papyri.).
