Testaments of time
Subtitle: the search for lost manuscripts and records.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 1965
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 590
Subjects: Manuscripts -- History; Manuscripts -- Collection and preservation
Description: Panorama of the astonishing work done to retrieve and restore ancient texts, of the scholar-adventurers who gave us vast new knowledge of the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Mexico, and Central Asia, and of the origins of the Bible.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 566-590.