Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday handed over to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) as many as 101 valuable antiquities that were seized from smugglers by different field formations of the Customs Department.The antiquities .
Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman virtually presided over the handing-over ceremony of the antiquities seized by Customs to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) conducted by the Central Board of Indirect Tax
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these thomasine christians and destroyed them, burnt them. the history of early christianity in india, recorded on palm leaf manuscript, was put to the flame. much of the documents of the saint thomas christians were burnt at the time, so they were all destroyed. a team of archivists are hunting down the few surviving palm leaf records. it s an all-india phenomena, palm leaf as writing material because that was what was available readily in kerala, unlike in the middle east, where you would have parchments or scrolls and paper. many of their inscriptions are written in syriac, the language of many early christians, close to aramaic, the language spoken by jesus and
on palm leaf manuscript, was put to the flame. much of the documents of the saint thomas christians were burnt at the time, so they were all destroyed. a team of archivists are hunting down the few surviving palm leaf records. it s an all-india phenomena, palm leaf as writing material because that was what was available readily in kerala, unlike in the middle east, where you would have parchments or scrolls and paper. many of their inscriptions are written in syriac, the language of many early christians, close to aramaic, the language spoken by jesus and thomas. so far, the oldest dates to 1291.