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[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

[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]