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...)