Division of Historic Services
NARRATOR: Every religion seeks to answer the same question. Where did we come from? Philosophers, sages, and priests have pondered our origins since the dawn of humanity, while science has looked for evidence that might one day give us the answer. Both religion and science approach the idea of where we come from with a …
NARRATOR: Nag Hammadi, Egypt, December 1945– a farmer discovers a sealed earthenware jar containing 13 leather-bound papyrus books. These books now known as the Nag Hammadi codices were written by the early Christians known as Gnostics in the first several centuries AD. These mysterious texts contain the gospels of Thomas and Phillip, as well as …
NARRATOR: Cape Sounion, Greece. Perched on the headland, surrounded on three sides by the sea, lies the ruins of the temple of Poseidon, built in 440 BC, the second son of the Titan King Cronus. Poseidon was worshipped throughout Greece, almost as much as his younger brother Zeus. Poseidon was the god of the sea. …
