Word: papyruses
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...clay fragments, in papyrus records -the words were everywhere: "Gone." Battered by oppressive taxes and tormented by religious persecution, the Christian Copts (their name comes from an Arab corruption of the Greek word for Egyptian) slipped from the bulging cities of 5th century Egypt into the silent desert, well in advance of the convulsive social earthquakes that rent the New Age from antiquity...
...Analecta Bollandiana, a dry, multilingual collection of research on the lives of the saints. The latest Analecta, for example, contains one article on the Bollandists' current favorite topic. St. Martin of Tours, plus others on such minutiae as an early Swedish manuscript dealing with Persian saints and a papyrus describing the life of St. Phileas. Eventually, this material may find its way into the Bollandists' Acta Sanctorum of which only 69 volumes have been published in the 360 years since Dutch Jesuit Heribert Rosweyde undertook to write accurate hagiographies. But no volume of the Acta series has been...
...Murchison Park ($86), and there is an assortment of river, rail and car trips that provide closeup views of the animals. At Murchison travelers can take the "Royal" cottages (where Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth stayed two years/ago) for $7.25; overflow guests use tents ($4.50) set up under papyrus-thatch shelters. All have to be alert for the elephants that sometimes back up against bedroom windows and vent their disapproval on all the occupants...
...calls her latest autobiographical book a "papyrus from a pyramid," and though it is not fiction, Shadows in the Grass is almost as remote as the medieval Persia and 19th century Italy in which Author Dinesen has sometimes set her tales. In Shadows, she reminisces about the decade (1921-31) when she ran a coffee plantation in the Ngong hill country of Kenya, an Africa now dead beyond recall and yet startlingly alive in these recollections. Characteristically, her theme -the relation of master and servant-would embarrass many contemporary writers to the roots of their social consciousness, but from...
...hiding their sacred writings in inaccessible caves. In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd boy crawled into one such cave, found the first of these writings: the famous Dead Sea Scrolls. Since then, Israeli archaeologists have watched in alarm as Bedouins haphazardly ransacked the caves for more fragments of parchment and papyrus, often sneaking across the Jordan border to rifle Israeli caves. Last week Israeli Archaeologist Yohanan Aharoni was about to start an all-out search of the remaining Israeli caves on a scholarly and scientific basis, organized with the full support of the Israeli government...