Is the money donated to Red Cross being used to buy antiques? - antique cross pram
I've heard that was the buyer of the "Gospel of Judas" Switzland Red Cross, is that true?
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Antique Cross Pram Is The Money Donated To Red Cross Being Used To Buy Antiques?
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Umm no it's not in Switzerland. It is in Egypt where the Egyptian government property.
Found by a farmer
Tests of radiocarbon dating, and experts found in the ancient languages that the document was written from 300 to 400, said the team. In Coptic, Egyptian written, the gospel was discovered by a farmer in a grave, as the case "in 1978, said Terry Garcia, National Geographic Society. It is part of a code, or d 'a collection of devotional texts, found in a cave near El Minya, Egypt.
The farmer sold the code to an antique dealer in Cairo, without the attention of the authorities of the Egyptian antiquities. In a sample in secret in 1983, the antiques dealer, knowing full well the contents of the Code, which provides the gospel to the sale Emmel and researchers in a room, Geneva, Switzerland hotel.
Then half an hour, "he hastened to the Code, Emmel first signs of Judas papyrus sheets discussed review, he said, is a hasty text, was full of references to the student based Copts. But theSelling price was too exaggerated, up to 3 million, said Garcia.
Over the next 16 years, the paper in the form of Hicksville, NY, bank safe, the deterioration of its headquarters in Zurich, bought antique dealer Frieda Tchacos in 2000, alarmed by its fragmentation, "says Garcia. National Geographic said he knew of the purchase price.
In 2001, the manuscript of the Maecenas Foundation for Ancient Art purchased in Switzerland, said Garcia. The Foundation asked the National Geographic support for the restoration in 2004, and also an agreement with the Egyptian government, which returned to its restoration.
The National Geographic Society has the only known copy of the Gospel of Judas presented on Thursday. To see the full story of the discovery and restoration of the Gospel of Judas in the National Geographic Channel. The first exhibition is Sunday 9 April at 8 clock BST.
In addition, the Gospel of Judas appears in the May cover of National Geographic magazine. Pages of the Codex will be shown on the Nationallen Geographic Society and possibly remain in the Coptic Museum in Cairo, Egypt.
I believe that someone does not know what she has to speak
I believe that someone does not know what she has to speak
Which is used to make a donation to Bush
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