[SonOfDarkSkies]

From the article:

"It's being called a second Renaissance," says Todd Hickey, a curator of papyri at the University of California, Berkeley, which has some 26,000 pieces of papyrus, many still unread. "It's revealing things that we didn't have a hope of reading in the past."

[Mike Fieschko]

Jim Davila's paleojudaica blog had a post today on this article, TECHNOLOGY WATCH: The Wall Street Journal has a good survey article of recent developments in the digitization of ancient and medieval manuscripts.

He links to previous blog posts:

For the work of Father Columba Stewart (the Benedictine monk), see here. For the Oxyrhynchus Papyri (the garbage dump) see here and here. For the Timbuktu archives, see here. For projects to digitize the manuscripts of the St. Catherine's Monastery, see here and here. For the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts, see here. For the Archimedes palimpsest see here, here, and here.

[henkster]

This is a very worthwhile endeavor.

[UpToHere]

Think maybe they can scan our Constitution and send the results to Washington. It certainly something the representatives could ponder over, since the current version is all Greek to them.

Al

[Verginius Rufus]

The article implies that Neophron was earlier than Euripides.

According to an encyclopedia article on Neophron published in the 1970s (by Franz Stoessl), three fragments of Neophron's Medea were known. From their style they were assigned to the 4th century, and the author seemed to be trying to improve on Euripides' Medea on the basis of Aristotle's critique of Euripides in the Poetics.

[SunkenCiv]

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[arthurus]

If the US is, indeed, becoming Eurobamasocialist then the Age of Discovery will not happen unless, perhaps, in India. The US went to the moon. It will likely wait for India to go any farther- if India can avoid resocializing as that country gets rich.