Antiquities; Stone carving; Excavations (Archaeology) - Egypt
Artifacts from the Nag Hammadi excavation pictured next to a measuring device. This image is similar to Object File Name nha1208, which shows artifact without the two bulbs inserted on the right side. A label at the bottom of the image reads...
Portraits, Group; Robinson, James McConkey, 1924-; Robinson, Anita Weisbrod; Texts; Kissinger, Henry, 1923-; Hedrick, Charles W.; Men; Women; Files (Records); Nag Hammadi codices; Coptic manuscripts (Papyri); Coptic language - Papyri; Matḥaf...
Charles Hedrick shows the Nag Hammadi codices to Henry Kissinger. James Robinson, Anita Robinson, and others are in the room, and a woman holds a recorder to Kissinger's right.
Kissinger, Henry, 1923-; Robinson, James McConkey, 1924-; Men; Women; Texts; Files (Records); Nag Hammadi codices; Coptic manuscripts (Papyri); Coptic language - Papyri; Matḥaf al-Qiḅtī (Cairo, Egypt)
James Robinson shows the Nag Hammadi codices to Henry Kissinger. The texts are spread out on a long table before the two men. Other dignitaries stand behind the two men.
A chunk missing from the bottom of the Jabal al-Ṭārif cliff shows evidence of illegal excavation in Greco-Roman cemetery where the Nag Hammadi codices were found in a jar. It is believed that Gnostic monks hid the texts in the cave as a legacy...
