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Getty Apocalypse

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Illuminating the End of Time

By Annelisa Stephan | Published: March 14, 2012
Page from Illuminating the End of Time from Getty Publications

We’re well into 2012, the year proclaimed as the end of time by Mayan hieroglyphs, extra-terrestrial communicators, and bad disaster movies. The Getty Apocalypse, a medieval manuscript of the biblical Book of Revelation recently published as a facsimile by Getty… More»

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