Sentences with phrase «study ancient manuscripts»
Princeton doctoral student Xiyue Wang, who went to Iran to study ancient manuscripts, was arrested in August 2016, accused of spying for the United States, and sentenced to 10 years in prison in July 2017.
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Some early Christian writers were aware of the importance of old manuscripts for the study of the Bible, and copyists during the Middle Ages, both in the East and in the West, made efforts to find ancient models.
Such divisions are very uncommon in ancient manuscripts, but they do show up frequently in manuscripts that were used in educational contexts,» said Landau, a lecturer in the UT Austin Department of Religious Studies.
The Grolier Codex, an ancient document that is among the rarest books in the world, has been regarded with skepticism since it was reportedly unearthed by looters from a cave in Chiapas, Mexico, in the 1960s, but a new study claims it is both genuine and likely the most ancient of all surviving manuscripts from ancient America.
Ancient seals, drawings, prints, books, and medieval, music and literary manuscripts will illustrate the place of animals in the creative process — as symbols, teachers of moral lessons, talking characters, companions, and subjects of scientific study and artistic inspiration.