Sentences with phrase «surviving ancient manuscripts»

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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.

But one type of sprouted - grain bread — called «Essene» bread because it's described in a surviving manuscript written by that ancient religious sect — takes a different approach.

Whether she's imagining the history of an ancient manuscript, as in People of the Book, or an English town determined to survive the plague in A Year of Wonders, Pulitzer Prize - winning novelist Geraldine Brooks is a master at bringing history's little - known but fascinating stories to life.

The 1,600 year - old manuscript only contains fragments of the epic, which tells the tale of the ancient hero Aeneas as he ventures from Troy to Italy and consists of 76 surviving pages, and 50 illustrations.