Marja Vierros, the PI of the ERC funded project PapyGreek leads us to the room full of papyri treasures at the University of Helsinki. However, the papyri are in the form of modern books, not ancient ...
The Digital Grammar of Greek Documentary Papyri (PapyGreek) project fills a void in Greek scholarship: the papyrological corpus represents the post-Classical variety of Greek, a bridge between ...
Archaeologists have found a papyrus copy of Homer’s Iliad in the gut of an ancient Egyptian mummy, the first time ever that a Greek literary text has been found incorporated into the preservation ...
New research on papyri sheds light on an ancient world with surprisingly modern concerns: including hoped-for medical cures, religious confusion and the need for financial safeguards. A University of ...
It’s like breaking Enigma or reading a doctor’s handwriting. And sure enough, in test-driving the new website where we can all decipher ancient papyri, I was soon having considerable trouble. It ...