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As a written authority, it is second only to the biblical text and can be used as a source of authority for making judgements.
These coins were the first to use this medium to proclaim the qur’anic revelation to a mass audience.
Empress Shôtoku ordered one million pagodas to be carved, with one million prayers to be printed and placed inside.
Texts (about 200,000 altogether), mostly hand-written on parchment or paper in the Middle Ages.
The Romans were keen to spread the news of their victory through the equivalent of our 1p coin.
The book was most probably copied by Buddhist monks, in what today is Bengal, in eastern India. It was commissioned and donated to a major monastery, by a female donor, who is mentioned in the final lines.
This small figurine is an example of mass production, which individuals would purchase to have in their homes.
Antinous, a favourite companion of Hadrian, was a human who became a god after he died.