Egypt
- Book Review: Greetings In The Lord
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (review by Roberta Mazza) AnneMarie Luijendijk, Greetings in the Lord: Early Christians and the Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Harvard Theological Studies 60. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Divinity School, 2008. The city of Oxyrhynchus has...
- High-tech Imaging Reveals Hidden Past In Ancient Texts
Physorg It might simply look like a smudge, but even the slightest stain on the ancient writing surface of papyrus could obscure a revelation of a past civilization. Now, with the advent of high-tech imaging, some of those secrets could reveal fascinating...
- The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Lxxi (online Preview)
What's New in Papyrology The following post comes from the above blog focusing on “recent publications of papyri & ostraca 4th BC-8th AD; conferences, lectures etc”. If this field is of interest, this is a very good site to bookmark. Saturday,...
- More On The Oxyrhynchus Papyri
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/31/features/hype.php An article which describes some of the responses to The Independent's article about the Oxyrhynchus papyri: "Unearthed from centuries-old garbage dumps in central Egypt in the late 19th century,...
- More On The Oxyrhynchus Papyrii
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/04/0425_050425_papyrus.html "Salvaged from an ancient garbage dump in Egypt, the collection is kept at Oxford University in England. Known as the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, the collection includes writings by great...
Egypt
Mysteries of Ancient Egyptian Papyri Revealed
http://nn.byu.edu/story.cfm/63063
Thanks very much to Chris Townsend for this article from 14th February, which I missed:
"Three BYU professors have uncovered mysteries in ancient Egyptian writings aided by new technology that allows people to see inscriptions invisible to the naked eye.
The professors Roger Macfarlane, Stephen Bay and Thomas Wayment, have been working on deciphering these writings on papyrus found in an Egyptian dump where an ancient city known as Oxyrhynchus previously existed. The papyri are now housed at the University of Oxford in England and studied by various scholars around the globe.
The technology developed by BYU called multispectral imaging, can penetrate through dirt, stains and other material on the papyri, making it possible to expose obscured lettering. . . . Multispectral imaging uses filters from ultraviolet to infrared waves of light to see through the dirt and stains on the papyri surface. These filters reveal what was written on the papyri over 2,000 years ago. BYU scholars have found original texts from the Bible and even new apocrypha using this technology."
See the above page for the full story
For other posts on this blog about the Oxyrhynchus papyri see:
The professors Roger Macfarlane, Stephen Bay and Thomas Wayment, have been working on deciphering these writings on papyrus found in an Egyptian dump where an ancient city known as Oxyrhynchus previously existed. The papyri are now housed at the University of Oxford in England and studied by various scholars around the globe.
The technology developed by BYU called multispectral imaging, can penetrate through dirt, stains and other material on the papyri, making it possible to expose obscured lettering. . . . Multispectral imaging uses filters from ultraviolet to infrared waves of light to see through the dirt and stains on the papyri surface. These filters reveal what was written on the papyri over 2,000 years ago. BYU scholars have found original texts from the Bible and even new apocrypha using this technology."
See the above page for the full story
For other posts on this blog about the Oxyrhynchus papyri see:
http://egypt--devology.blogspot.com/search?q=Oxyrhynchus
- Book Review: Greetings In The Lord
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (review by Roberta Mazza) AnneMarie Luijendijk, Greetings in the Lord: Early Christians and the Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Harvard Theological Studies 60. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Divinity School, 2008. The city of Oxyrhynchus has...
- High-tech Imaging Reveals Hidden Past In Ancient Texts
Physorg It might simply look like a smudge, but even the slightest stain on the ancient writing surface of papyrus could obscure a revelation of a past civilization. Now, with the advent of high-tech imaging, some of those secrets could reveal fascinating...
- The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Lxxi (online Preview)
What's New in Papyrology The following post comes from the above blog focusing on “recent publications of papyri & ostraca 4th BC-8th AD; conferences, lectures etc”. If this field is of interest, this is a very good site to bookmark. Saturday,...
- More On The Oxyrhynchus Papyri
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/31/features/hype.php An article which describes some of the responses to The Independent's article about the Oxyrhynchus papyri: "Unearthed from centuries-old garbage dumps in central Egypt in the late 19th century,...
- More On The Oxyrhynchus Papyrii
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/04/0425_050425_papyrus.html "Salvaged from an ancient garbage dump in Egypt, the collection is kept at Oxford University in England. Known as the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, the collection includes writings by great...