Re: VMs: OT: Gobbling the Whole -- Oxyrhynchus papyri have become legible

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

Jim Gillogly wrote:

> http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=630165 
>
> New photographic techniques have made formerly illegible
> papyri give up their secrets, which include hitherto unknown
> works of Sophochles, Euripedes, Hesiod, and other classical
> Greek and Roman luminaries and sub-luminaries.

	Thanks!  I had heard of Oxyrhincus papyri that help 
fragments of what is now known as the Gospel of Thomas, but 
I hadn't known there was a hoard.

	The Archimedes palimpsest has been well publicized.  The 
work done on it so far indicates that Archimedes invented 
the integral calculus.  I watched a Nova PBS show on it and 
thought of our work.

	There is also a Menander palimpsest at the Vatican, but I 
haven't found much information on it.

Dennis


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