Saturday, April 16, 2005

Oxyrhynchus Papyri being decoded

Big breakthrough in classical studies: The Indepdendent reports how infra-red technology is being used to read a motherlode of ancient texts, probably 5 million words in all. New lines from a lost Sophocles play the Epigonoi have already been decoded. Possibly lost Christian gospels too.

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