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...entered the Valencia archbishop's residence for the brief meeting with Benedict. Inside, there were uneasy smiles and rigid body language. The customary exchange of gifts was also telling, with Zapatero giving the pontiff a modern abstract painting and Benedict handing the Spanish leader a copy of the Vatican codex. (Not very likely that the art work will get be hung or the Church document read...
...then, much later, dug up again. Robinson reports that a leather-bound codex containing the alleged 5th century Coptic version was excavated in Egypt and emerged on the antiquities market in 1983 at a price of $3 million. It was badly damaged and apparently at one point had been torn in half. It is now possessed by a group called the Maecenas Foundation, and in 2004 a Coptic expert named Rodolphe Kasser announced that he was reassembling and translating it. "There are huge holes in it, unfortunately," says Mario Roberty, Maecenas' director. "But I'm astonished at how successful scientists...
DRCLAS and a team of Mexican anthropologists are currently engaged in a project to restore a rare 16th century codex documenting Mexico’s pre-Spanish history. The codex resurfaced in 2003 after going missing for four decades...
...Espinosa was the primary impetus for this project,” Seiferle-Valencia said. “She wants to know about the codex, to get scholars involved, and to contribute to the public...
Espinosa said she hopes the codex will help people to “better understand all Mexican history...