EGYPT: EGYPT TO RETRIEVE 13 COPTIC MANUSCRIPTS.

From: IPR Strategic Business Information Database | Date: August 14, 2006 | Copyright information

Egypt will be able to retrieve 13 manuscripts of its rare stolen possessions, including the early Christian leather-bound codex identified as the Gospel of Judas," Culture Minister Farouq Hosni announced Wednesday 12/4/2006. The manuscript was discovered in the early 1970s in Central Egypt and at some point later wassmuggled out of the country. The National Geographic Society volunteered to pay $2 million for the repair of the badly damaged document, and asked the Maecenas Foundat...

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