http://www.searchmanuscript.com Stories of lost and found treasure, treasure hunting and treasure maps Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:34:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In the previous blog entry we told a story about a literary treasure of Americas - the Popol Vuh. Even today this famous manuscript presents a significant part in the belief system of many Quiche and Mayan people of Central America. They continue to blend Christian and indigenous beliefs. This ... http://www.searchmanuscript.com/?p=115 The Newberry Library in Chicago contains the single most important piece of Mesoamerican literature called Popol Vuh. The significance of the Popol Vuh is immense since it is one of a small number of early Mesoamerican mythological texts. It is a book created in the Classical Quiché language containing mythological ... http://www.searchmanuscript.com/?p=113 Lindisfarne Gospels is a priceless illuminated manuscript that was created in the early 700s. It is an illustrated Latin copy of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. We know the name of the manuscript creator. His name was Eardfrith, he was a monk whobecame Bishop of Lindisfarne in ... http://www.searchmanuscript.com/?p=93 Between 1947 and 1956 almost 900 ancient documents were discovered in the eleven caves new the northwest shore of the Dead Sea.  With a small exception of some papyrus documents, most of the manuscripts were written on parchment in three languages: Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic.  The manuscripts named by scientists ... http://www.searchmanuscript.com/?p=88 In 1898 French egyptologist Victor Loret made an invaluable discovery in the Valley of the Kings. He found the remains of the ancient mausoleum and the tomb of  the pharaoh Thutmose III and his vizier Useramun.  Loret found complete funerary texts that were reserved only for the pharaohs and the ... http://www.searchmanuscript.com/?p=77 Among funerary pieces of literature found by archeologists in the Valley of the Kings there is an ancient funeral text called Amduat. Specialists discovered many excerpts of it in the tombs of New Kingdom pharaohs. Until they found the complete ancient document in the tomb of Thutmose 3 in the ... http://www.searchmanuscript.com/?p=64 One of the sacred funerary texts found in the tombs and pyramids along with the Book of the Dead is the famous Book of Gates.  Overall, this secret and mysterious manuscipt appears in the times of the New Kingdom, somewhere between 16th and 11th centuries B.C. Book of Gates is ... http://www.searchmanuscript.com/?p=52 The invasion of conquistadors to America resulted in almost total destroyal of documents and manuscripts of Mesoamerican rituals and life.  One of a little few that survived the ordeal is located in the Apostolic Library of Vatican.  Specialists call this famous manuscript  Codex Borgia  - it consists of 39 sheets ... http://www.searchmanuscript.com/?p=48 It seems that everything Google has instant first love attraction. Sometimes we even see things that don't exist because of that kind of trust we have in the number 1 search engine company.  I am talking about the recent "discovery" of Atlantis. It all started when some Big Foot believer from ... http://www.searchmanuscript.com/?p=43 In the middle of 19th century European learned about very complex and sophisticated concept of afterlife that existed in ancient Egypt.  In 1842 when German Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius published the selection of texts that included Egyptian collection of funeral hymns, spells, and instructions to allow the deceased to ... http://www.searchmanuscript.com/?p=38