Welcome to TreasureQuest!
Look through the treasures and answer the questions. You’ll collect jewels and for each level reached, earn certificates.
How far will you go?
You need an adult’s permission to join. Or play the game without joining, but you’ll not be able to save your progress.
As a written authority, it is second only to the biblical text and can be used as a source of authority for making judgements.
The early Upanishads are the conceptual bases of much of later Hindu thought and practice.
Texts (about 200,000 altogether), mostly hand-written on parchment or paper in the Middle Ages.
It is 11 metres long and 18 cm wide, made from pieces of parchment sewn together to form a long strip, which is then rolled up.
Proslogion is thought to have put down in writing one of the earliest versions of the so-called ‘ontological argument’
Before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Nash papyrus was the oldest known biblical text.
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.