{"id":10441,"date":"2020-01-03T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10441"},"modified":"2020-01-04T16:36:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T23:36:49","slug":"first-illustrated-book-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/01\/03\/first-illustrated-book-found\/","title":{"rendered":"First Illustrated Book Found"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/Detail from one of the coffins of Gua, chief physician of Djehutyhotep, governor of Bersha. The paintings recall drawings from the Book of Two Ways. Werner Forman\/Universal Images Group\/Getty Images\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from The Observer (opens in a new tab)\">from The Observer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Oldest Copy of the First Illustrated Book Has Been Discovered in Egypt<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/author\/helen-holmes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Helen Holmes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/01\/gettyimages-152201951.jpg?quality=80&amp;w=564&amp;h=600\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1218316\"\/><figcaption>Detail from one of the coffins of Gua, chief physician of Djehutyhotep, governor of Bersha. The paintings recall drawings from the Book of Two Ways.\u00a0Werner Forman\/Universal Images Group\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s always exciting when some kind of human civilizational first is discovered or unearthed by experts, as evidenced by the thrill generated by a recent discovery of cave paintings, thought to be the earliest example of pictorial storytelling,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2019\/12\/earliest-figurative-cave-drawings-discovered-indonesia-sulawesi\/\" target=\"_blank\">which were uncovered Indonesia<\/a>. Now, a new study covered this week by the\u00a0<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/30\/science\/archaeology-books-egypt-underworld.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>reports that the oldest copy of the first illustrated book has been found in Egypt by researchers working under the direction of University of Leuven Egyptologist Harco Willems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Called the\u00a0<em>Book of Two Ways,\u00a0<\/em>the extraordinary narrative told in the tome is about what happens to the soul after death. It\u2019s been dated to be approximately 4,000 years old and at least 4 decades older than any of the other known copies, of which there are approximately two dozen. The text was discovered in a village on the eastern side of the Nile river after Willems\u2019 decision in 2012 to reopen and study the contents of a burial shaft once looted and long abandoned. A detailed report of the findings were published in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/0307513319856848?journalCode=egaa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\"><em>The Journal of Egyptian Archeology\u2019s<\/em> September edition<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2020\/01\/first-illustrated-book-egypt-discovery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at The Observer (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at The Observer<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Observer The Oldest Copy of the First Illustrated Book Has Been Discovered in Egypt By\u00a0Helen Holmes It\u2019s always exciting when some kind of human civilizational first is discovered or unearthed by experts, as evidenced by the thrill generated by a recent discovery of cave paintings, thought to be the earliest example of pictorial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}