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- "The Shamash Hymn" - Sumerian - English - German
 
- "The Shamash Hymn" - Sumerian - English - German
  
- "Writings about and from Ptah-Hotep" Egyptian - English
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- "Writings about and from Ptah-Hotep" - Egyptian - English
  
 
- "Plato: The Laws" - Greek - English
 
- "Plato: The Laws" - Greek - English
  
 
These are basic texts, the other publications (about 30) are truely obscure and only of interest for professional linguists.
 
These are basic texts, the other publications (about 30) are truely obscure and only of interest for professional linguists.
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He is known to have a pet owl that acts very strangely and he is basically never seen without it. For those in the know, it is a spotted owlet (Athene brama). Some Occultists consider the species a bad omen.

Latest revision as of 21:10, 9 May 2013

Erich Menkner will maybe be known to a select few book/manuscript "freaks" as being a member of the Menkner family which founded the "Menkner-Ashpool Foundation" that has several libraries and literary research centers in the US and Europe with a focus on literary sciences/history and linguistics. For persons who can "find out things.." there will be rumors that he owns a huge collection of very old and obscure tomes and manuscripts himself and the same rumor has it that he can read and write more than a dozen languages.

Using standard databases, one will find a few scientifically acclaimed and published translations and re-translations of old texts:

- "The Shamash Hymn" - Sumerian - English - German

- "Writings about and from Ptah-Hotep" - Egyptian - English

- "Plato: The Laws" - Greek - English

These are basic texts, the other publications (about 30) are truely obscure and only of interest for professional linguists.

He is known to have a pet owl that acts very strangely and he is basically never seen without it. For those in the know, it is a spotted owlet (Athene brama). Some Occultists consider the species a bad omen.