Nag Hammâdi Texts discovered durring the Enlightenment.

I've noticed a lot of parralels between The Gnostic ideas in the Nag Hammadi and the Deist, theological, and philosophical ideas of the enlightenment. I.E. Sophia and the "Goddess of atheism" the whole idea of Gnosis fits in with the idea of enlightenment. This would require an earlier opening of Egypt to the west, and since the texts wouldn't be as old, they'd be in better condition, and more would be able to be recovered from them.
 

Leo Caesius

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They would be in virtually the same condition in which they were when they were discovered in OTL, but conservation standards being what they were, they wouldn't remain that way for very long. I'm reminded of a Mr. Drovetti, who was the Italian ambassador to Egypt at some point in the mid-19th c., and who purchased the document that became known as the "Turin King List". Fortunately, the fellahin who discovered it thought to make more money by ripping it in half and selling it to two vendors. I say "fortunately" because Drovetti set across the desert on a donkey bound for Alexandria, the papyrus in a sack by its side, and when he arrived his half of the List had been reduced to tiny fragments.
 
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