From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Sun Apr 17 2005 - 14:09:13 CST
Decoded at last: the 'classical holy grail' that may rewrite the
history of the world
Scientists begin to unlock the secrets of papyrus scraps bearing
long-lost words by the literary giants of Greece and Rome
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=630165
See also today's In the News article at http://en.wikipedia.org/
Sophocles, Euripides, Archilochus, and other literary giants of
antiquity, and possibly lost Christian gospels, are being recovered
from classical Greek and Roman texts at the Oxyrhynchus
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyrhynchus) archaeological site in
Egypt using infrared technology.
Let no one say that Unicode should stop short of encoding all of the
world's writing systems. Our work is long from finished.
Optimistically,
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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