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Deciphering the papyri, Sommerschield says, could “revolutionize our knowledge of ancient history and literature.”

From Scientific American • Oct. 17, 2023

“Ithaca’s architecture makes it really applicable to any ancient language, not just Latin, but Mayan, cuneiform; really any written medium — papyri, manuscripts,” she said.

From The Verge • Mar. 9, 2022

The Dead Sea Scrolls and the papyri with scraps of the New Testament were to show that biblical text has survived in the same form since it was written.

From Slate • Oct. 4, 2021

And scholars had sometimes been allowed to bring papyri to their rooms at Oxford.

From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2021

Out of 125 papyri recording contemporary legal cases, fully 20 percent involve personal squabbles between individual Greeks and Egyptians.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro