Saturday, July 20, 2019

Ancient Lives: Uncover the past through ancient manuscripts

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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