Papyrus Script about Jesus.

                                                Gospel Of John 18.36 to 19.7

                                           Greek Papyrus on Luke.          
               

                                                Matthew from Papyrus 1
                                                

                                                  Works Of Joseph 1640

Palm leaf manuscript of Gautama Buddha.

Outer wooden covers (Kamba) and the first and last pages of the Pali text of Dhammapada in Sinhalese characters.This palm leaf manuscript (17 1/2"x 2 1/2) is believe to be the oldest extant copy of the scripture.

The upper cover depicts the Bodhi tree in green, under which the mendicant Gautama is said to have attained supreme enlightment, and eight stupas colored amber against a red background. The lower cover shows a relic casket and two stupas beside the Sri Pada Mountain with the Buddha's footprint, and portrays also the Great Passing of the Buddha into Parinirvana.

Pirate Cossack of the Black Sea.

Cossacks became maritime pirates, every bit as deadly and colorful as their counterparts on the Spanish Main. Their raids and campaigns against the Ottoman Empire remain the stuff of legend in Ukrainian folklore and literature.

Cossack board a Turkish vessel full of Cherkassk women off the Black Sea coast, in a 19th-century engraving by Adolphe Bayot and Leon Sabatier. Besides plunder, the Cossacks struck at the Turkish merchant ships to free the slaves they carried.

Upon reaching the Cossack base, the Turks were surprise to learn that the Cossacks. with the exception of a small garrison, had returned home to their families for the winter. Rather than make a futile stand, the garrison
retreated onto the steppes, leaving the Turks with only a few huts and some disabled vessels. Loathe to leave
empty handed, the pasha returned to Constantinople "in triumph" with abandoned vessels and proclaimed that the Cossacks has been destroyed.
Darting among larger Turkish Vessels in their rustic but swift and agile chaiky. Cossack raid a fortified Ottoman port in the early 17th century, when such activities reached their high-water mark.