@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz
2026-06-27 09:13 UTC
@GiffordJames@mas.to - this is great! Some people working on the Herculaneum papyri were also studying over 400,000 fragments of papyrus found in an ancient garbage dump in the old Egyptian town of Oxyrhynchus. A while back they pieced together new fragments of plays by Euripides, Sophocles and Menander, lost lines from the poets Sappho, Hesiod, and Archilocus, and most of a book by Hesiod:
Oxyrhynchus Online, multispectral imaging, http://www.papyrology.ox.ac.uk/multi/procedure.html
But I haven't been keeping track of their more recent progress.
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@GiffordJames@mas.to 2026-06-27 16:45
@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz So many projects and so little time to follow them all!