“So to give an introduction of myself I would first like to say that when I was younger, I did NOT want to read, I would do everything I could to avoid it. It wasn’t that I couldn’t read, I just didn’t want to take the time and miss out on playing, I didn’t want to just sit around. Then as I got older, I realized you need to read EVERTHING! Cereal boxes, road signs…. Bills. Through my teens I started reading short books, like the ones in the school library, then as I got older it progressed to novels. I love how it just takes you away for a while. I love how I can play it out in my head and have my own cast of characters. Jensen Ackles, Chris Hemsworth and Jason Momao play a lot of rolls. I now either read or listen to audio books instead of watching TV. I started listening to audiobooks more frequently about 5 years ago. Now I am an aspiring narrator, because really, who doesn’t want to make something they love a full-time job. I have researched voice over work for a few years now and decided to take the leap and start. The beginning of this year I really challenged myself and took some courses during my personal time, while balancing a fulltime job, and a crazy household, and started up my own business JessVicVoice. It is not easy for any full-time mom to start up her own business, but I’m taking my passion, and a hopeful leap of faith, to make it happen.
In my reading journeys I have come across some information I found very interesting that I want to share. When were the first books written?
Well this is what I found….
1. Etruscan Gold Book – c.600 BCE Before the Common Era (BCE)
Author: Unknown
Country of Origin: Bulgaria
Script: Etruscan uh·truh·skn
Although not much is known about the Etruscan Gold Book, it is believed to be the oldest book in the world as it dates back to around 600 BCE. The entire book is made out of 24 carat gold and consists of six sheets bound together, which have illustrations of a horse-rider, a mermaid, a harp, and soldiers. The book was found sometime in the late 1950s in a tomb uncovered during digging for a canal along the Strouma river in Bulgaria. stroo·muh
2. Pyrgi Gold Tablets – c.500 BCE
Author: Thefarie Velianas, Kinng of Caere
Country of Origin: Pyrgi, Italy (modern-day Santa Severa)
Script: Etruscan and Phoenician
photo source: Wikimedia Commons
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The Prygi gold tablets were found during an excavation of the ancient port town of Pyrgi, Italy in 1964 and date back to around 500 BCE. Although the tablets aren’t exactly a book, each tablet has holes around the border suggesting that they were once bound together. The tablets are notable because they are written in two different languages, two of the tablets are written in ancient Etruscan and the third one is written in Phoenician.
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3. Codex Sinaiticus (Sinai Bible) – c. 330 – 360 AD AD stands for Anno Domini, Latin for “in the year of the Lord”
Author: Copied by various scribes
Country of Origin: Sinai, Egypt
Script: Greek
Codex Sinaiticus, commonly called the Sinai Bible, is one of the world’s most important and treasured books as it is the only early manuscript of the Christian Bible that is still largely intact. The book is a handwritten copy of the Bible in the ancient Greek text of Septuagint, which was originally made by four scribes sometime in the 4th century. sep·twuh·gnt
The book is considered to be one of the best Greek texts of the New Testament and been useful in aiding biblical text research. Although large portions of the Old Testament are missing from the book, scholars believe that the book originally contained both Testaments.
Well, I found this to be very interesting and wanted to share.
