Ancient Lives: Uncover the past through ancient manuscripts
Ancient Lives launched in 2011 as the
first effort to enlist volunteers across the world to help transcribe
papyrus fragments—fragments of texts on a form of paper used in the
ancient Mediterranean world. The project was initiated with the
Oxyrhynchus collection, a vast trove of papyrus fragments discovered in
the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This collection
includes literature, legal documents, and personal letters from Egypt
during the millennium when it was ruled by the successors of Alexander
the Great and then the Romans (3rd c. BCE - 7th c. CE).
The
current batch of papyri belongs to the Egypt Exploration Society, and
their texts will eventually be published and numbered in the Society's
Greco-Roman Memoirs series in the volumes entitled The Oxyrhynchus
Papyri. In this latest version of the project, we will integrate
additional collections of fragments over time and have adapted the
keyboard to allow transcription in Coptic, the language of early
Christian Egypt, as well as in Greek.
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