This looks simply amazing. It’s a website which offers digitally scanned images and information of books, manuscripts, maps and artifacts from ancient places. Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Oceania, the Americas – it’s all there. Looks pretty cool and there might even be some finds for my Church History essay…. Let’s hope so!
Here’s what the BBC are reporting:
“Unesco says the World Digital Library will help to promote curiosity and understanding across cultures.
Among the artefacts are a 1,000-year-old Japanese novel and the earliest known map to mention America by name.
About a tenth of the 1,200 exhibits are from Africa – the oldest an 8,000-year-old painting of bleeding antelopes.
But this is an ongoing project in its early stages, and the collection is expected to grow substantially.”
Check it out: http://www.wdl.org/en/
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Belteshazzar says:
April 23, 2009 at 10:17 am (UTC 10 )
i wonder if they are translated
mark says:
April 23, 2009 at 9:52 pm (UTC 10 )
not sure whether that’s going to happen, but that’s OK for those of us fortunate to have had to learn Greek the last few years!