In the mid-18th century, workers at Herculaneum discovered ... Tischendorf promised Alexander he would turn over the valuable manuscripts to the Russian Orthodox Church after he translated them.

Over time, artists began to depict them in paintings, such as The Medical Alchemist (see image), an archetypal 18th-century piece by Austrian artist ... a mortar and pestle and a manuscript with ...

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