Back to the... Past

[stoutfellow]

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 rfmcdpei for the tipoff.)

Comments

[norabombay.livejournal.com]

Something about using space technology to look at the past like that? Gives me all warm fuzzies inside.

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Take that, C. P. Snow! (I speak as one who straddles Snow's Gap...)

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

Wow is right! How exciting to be involved it it. I guess St. John's College's curriculum is just about to expand - a lot!

With documents of such differing ages, I wonder if it was a library that was trashed or hidden to protect it.

[carbonelle.livejournal.com]

Were you a Johnnie, hornedhopper?

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

No, I stayed in-state for undergraduate and graduate degrees, but our oldest son, Kipper, is currently a sophomore at St. John's in Annapolis. He never considered the Santa Fe campus; I think the farther from home, the more intriguing (g).

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

How rude. I forgot to ask if you were one!

[carbonelle.livejournal.com]

A number of my friends are Johnnies--I always thought it was a fantastic school--waltz balls & Ancient Greek! [sighs]