Indiana Jones meets The Da Vinci Code in an old Egyptian synagogue--the amazing story of one of the most important discoveries in modern religious scholarship.

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Indiana Jones meets The Da Vinci Code in an old Egyptian synagogue the amazing story of one of the most important discoveries in modern religious scholarship. I

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A compelling look at the Fatimid caliphate's robust culture of documentation The lost archive of the Fatimid caliphate (909–1171) survived in an unexpected pl