Thursday, October 19, 2006

One additional secret of the other world life is revealed

the "godly comedy" of antiquity can prove to be the ancient text, to decipher which it was possible for the international command of researchers. More than forty years after finding of unique document the scientists could read the creation of the unknown Ancient Greek author, who reflected about the the other world peace.

The papyrus Of derveni - this name obtained the roll, discovered in 1962 during the excavations in North Greece near Solonikov. Finding was made with a study of tomb of one of the aristocrats, which lived and dead in the times of the bloom of hellenic civilization. The authors of discovery dated the document of approximately 340 g. B.C., i.e., with the time of the administration of Philipp THE II Macedonian, the father of Alexander the Great. However, there is the opinion that the artifact can be considerably older. Thus, contemporary Greek philosopher apostolos Piyerris are confident: treatise was written even in V v. to Christmas of Christ's.

To determine precise date is impossible. The fact is that the roll was found damaged, or more precisely, sgorevshim or burnt together with its dead owner, in whose grave it lay almost 2,5 thousand years. In other words, in 1962 was found the incinerated papyrus, which was preserved in the form of roll. At that time to read which is written on it, not there was possibility. "paper is absolutely black, by the unarmed view cannot be even determined, there is on it record or there are not", it tells Polikseni Of veleni, the director of the archaelogical museum Of solonikov.

But the manuscripts, as is known, do not burn, and today, when at the disposal of science are located highly technological methods of interpretation and the contemporary scanning equipment, the secret of ancient text it was opened. That was possible to read in the charred roll, with the interest justified forces and time, spent on a study. The creation of the ancient author proved to be its kind the "godly comedy" of the antiquity: Ancient Greek writer, who lived in one-and-a-half thousand years to Dante, carries out the reader on Aida - to the other world peace, in which believed the inhabitants of ancient Ellady. But if the hero of "godly comedy" it accompanies Vergiliy, then the author of the papyrus Of derveni in his searches uses the services of Orpheus, who studied well reign Aida, after going down there in order to save its beloved Euridice.

The complete text of roll is not thus far promulgated, since to its final interpretation the time is necessary. But, probably, already entirely soon to the most important sources, which tell us about the world view of hellenes, will be added one more.

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