News

The man who saw them as works of art was Charles Lang Freer, who purchased the manuscripts from an Egyptian antiques dealer in 1906 for the princely sum of 1,800 pounds, about $7,500 in today’s ...
A visitor in the main gallery of the Museum of Biblical Art during a preview on May 10, 2005 in New York. The museum announced it would be closing in June. Photo by STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images ...