Monday, April 18, 2005

 

More tragic - more comic

The papyrology department at Oxford University has announced the development of a new technique that allows them to use infrared technology to scan old faded papyri for formerly supposed lost text.

This means more Sophocles, more Euripides, more Hesiod and much much more. There are about 400,000 fragments of text from Oxyrhynchus waiting to be scanned.

Chalk one up for the technolinguists!

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