Ancient books, manuscripts, texts, inscriptions and other documents
Just thought I’d start a discussion on the Babel Texts….the original world language.
In this forum we can discuss the links between mathematics; astronomy; archaic texts and stories; and ancient map making.
I’d like some suggestions of essential texts dealing with comparative mythology and folklore? I have read most of Campbell’s works and have read the Golden Bough, so these works can be omitted. Thank you, all!
The Old Testament was based on the Torah, which is generally accepted to be derived from the true history of the Semitic peoples. The Sumerians were one of the Semitic races, and their Epic of Gilgamesh is thought to be a direct antecedent of the Torah. The Epic is about a thousand years older (in written form - it almost certainly goes back even further as an oral tradition), and has many striking points of similarity with the OT.
Here are some of the salient points of two stories from the Epic - see if they remind you of anything!
The Flood
http://avesta.org/mp/bundahis.html
http://avesta.org/vendidad/index.html
The tales of the first faith.
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Yeah he wrote a book 6 and 7:
https://archive.org/stream/sixthandseventh00schegoog/sixthandseventh00sc...
Not something the religious right really wants you to know.
PapPal facilitates the study of ancient writing by collecting images of dated papyri. Its aim is to illustrate the development and diversity of ancient scripts, and to assist in dating undated texts
Tacitus:
Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works—the Annals and the ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus Annals' http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/roman/tacitus/annals/index.html
This has the Greek version along with the English translation:
Pyramid Texts
The Pyramid Texts were funerary inscriptions that were written on the walls of the early Ancient Egyptian pyramids at Sakkara.
These date back to the fifth and sixth dynasties, approximately the years 2350-2175 B.C.E. However, because of extensive internal evidence, it is believed that they were composed much earlier, circa 3000 B.C.E.
The Pyramid Texts are, therefore, essentially the oldest sacred texts known.
Dead Sea Scrolls
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/scrolls_deadsea/scrolls_deadsea.htm#Ad...
The Nag Hammadi Library:
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/nag_hammadi/contents.htm#Additional_In...
First off let me thank the powers that be for adding this forum. I think it would be a good idea to create a thread for each ancient civilization and their writings. That way we are not searching through a 50 page thread for a particular civilization. Lets start with this one:
Dresden Codex
MAYA HIEROGLYPHIC WRITING
The Ancient Maya Codices
