By UNESCO
From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, valuable documentary historical past documents the range of languages, peoples and information that has motivated humanity from the early days of human background to the current. This history records vital occasions, discoveries or innovations that experience remodeled the world.
The UNESCO reminiscence of the area programme was once created to maintain those recorded treasures of humanity and mobilize assets in order that destiny generations can get pleasure from this legacy that is preserved within the significant libraries, data and museums around the globe.
This ebook is a whole directory of all entries at the reputable UNESCO reminiscence of the realm foreign register:
• detailed record of documentary history from round the world
• pictures and outlines for 244 valuable documents
• All entries pointed out via the UNESCO foreign Advisory Committee and recommended through the Director-General
Entries include:
• 42-line Gutenberg Bible, published on vellum
• data of the foreign Prisoners of battle corporation, 1914-1923
• Bayeux Tapestry
• Magna Carta, issued in 1215
• Philippine Paleographs (Hanunoo, Buid, Tagbanua and Pala’wan)
• The Endeavour magazine of James Cook
• The Wizard of oz. (Victor Fleming 1939)
• Russian posters of the tip of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
• The conflict of the Somme documentary
• The Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem
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For example, many of the cities, villages, churches and temples of ancient Egypt are known through these papyri. Byzantine tax receipts form a large part of the records, allowing the reconstruction of aspects of the social and economic history of the Byzantine Empire. Roman military papers reveal aspects of governance in Egypt and beyond. Family archives from various periods also feature in the collection. 33 Erzherzog Rainer, who acquired the collection in 1883. 34 The Fayum oasis in Egypt, where the papyri were first found in the 1870s.
Sphinx Gate of Hattusas, Turkey 30 Rigveda Inscribed 2007 What is it Thirty manuscripts of the Rigveda, the oldest of the four Vedas which are the Hindu sacred texts of scripture. The Rigveda contains a collection of Sanskrit hymns and prayers and is believed to date to between 1700 BC and 1100 BC. Why was it inscribed The Vedas are among the first literary documents in human history but their significance goes beyond their scriptural importance. The Rigveda is considered the source of the culture that spread beyond the subcontinent to South, Southeast and Central Asia.
Wul la is also the oldest known non-mythical constructor of an alphabet. 54 Codex Argenteus – the ‘Silver Bible’ Christ’s baptism, depicted on the ceiling of King Theodoric’s Arian Baptistry in Ravenna. A beautiful and impressive object in its own right, the Codex Argenteus was thought to have been made for the Ostrogoth King Theodoric the Great (AD 454–526) and intended to be admired in a central place in a church, probably the Gothic Arian cathedral in Ravenna. The pages are high-quality coloured vellum inscribed in a decorative script in 55 silver and gold ink – a degree of ostentation and decoration that suggests a royal connection.
