From: Marion Gunn (mgunn@egt.ie)
Date: Tue May 12 2009 - 06:06:54 CDT
Anyone on this list know which of the ancient literary treasures housed
until 8 yrs ago in Baghdad repositories have been salvaged, and in which
repositories (outside of Iraq) they are currently located?
mg
Scríobh Eric Muller:
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124173896716198603.html
>
> In a 21st-century version of the age of discovery, teams of computer
> scientists, conservationists and scholars are fanning out across the
> globe in a race to digitize crumbling literary treasures. In the
> process, they're uncovering unexpected troves of new finds, including
> never-before-seen versions of the Christian Gospels, fragments of
> Greek poetry and commentaries on Aristotle. [...]
-- Marion Gunn * eGteo (Estab.1991) 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an Bhóthair, An Charraig Dhubh, Co. Átha Cliath, Éire/Ireland * mgunn@egt.ie * eamonn@egt.ie *
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