Public to hunt for lost gospels, literature & letters
Members of the public are being asked to help decode papyri, in order to find fragments of lost gospels, works of literature, and letters about everyday life in ancient Egypt, in a new project launched by Oxford University. Read more
Ancient Lives is a collaboration between a diverse collection of Oxford Papyrologists and Researchers, The Imaging Papyri Project, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Project, and the Egypt Exploration Society and the following institutions. The papyri belong to the Egypt Exploration Society and will eventually be published and numbered in Society's Greco-Roman Memoirs series in the volumes entitled The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. We would be grateful if the EES could be mentioned whenever the papyri or project are described' Read more