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.

[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?