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stoutfellow) wrote2005-04-17 10:01 am
stoutfellow) wrote2005-04-17 10:01 am
Back to the... Past
Wow. Just wow.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri are finally giving up their secrets. Lost writings of Sophocles, Archilochus, Hesiod, Euripides - maybe some first-century transcriptions of the Gospels (and/or some noncanonical versions) - are coming to light, thanks to new applications of techniques originally developed for satellite imaging.
(Thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rfmcdpei for the tipoff.)
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri are finally giving up their secrets. Lost writings of Sophocles, Archilochus, Hesiod, Euripides - maybe some first-century transcriptions of the Gospels (and/or some noncanonical versions) - are coming to light, thanks to new applications of techniques originally developed for satellite imaging.
(Thanks to
rfmcdpei for the tipoff.)
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