Translated from the Ethiopic manuscripts collected by King Theodore at Makdala and now in the British Museum. The number of Ethiopic manuscripts containing legends of the birth, life and death of the Virgin Mary is very great and the translations of all of them would take up many volumes. Budge collected a series of legends of the Virgin and added ...
And in the days of Nimrod, the mighty man (or giant), a fire appeared which ascended from the earth, and Nimrod went down, and looked at it, and worshipped it, and he established priests to minister there, and to cast incense from it. From that day the Persians began to worship fire... -from "The Fourth Thousand Years" One of the most prolific and ...
This book contains the Greek, Demotic and hieroglyphic texts of the decree inscribed on the Rosetta Stone conferring additional honors on Ptolemy v Epiphanes (203-181 BC) with English translations of the decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs, and an appendix containing translations of the Stelae of San (Tanis) and Tall Al-Maskhutah. Illustrated.
This text, the first English translation of the Ethiopic version of a Christianized Buddhist legend, contains descriptions of the Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Armenian, Georgian, Greek, Latin and Western European versions of the story.
This initial volume describes the lives of two founders of great monasteries which became centers for the teaching of doctrine and asceticism at a critical period in the history of the Church of the East.
Famed Egyptologist discusses the earliest herbals of the ancient Near East. Gods as herbalists, divine medicines, holy oils and unguents, much more. 13 black-and-white illus.
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