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Offline Nemesis

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Rewrite the history of the world
« on: April 17, 2005, 07:28:09 am »
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For more than a century, it has caused excitement and frustration in equal measure - a collection of Greek and Roman writings so vast it could redraw the map of classical civilisation. If only it was legible.

Now, in a breakthrough described as the classical equivalent of finding the holy grail, Oxford University scientists have employed infra-red technology to open up the hoard, known as the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, and with it the prospect that hundreds of lost Greek comedies, tragedies and epic poems will soon be revealed.

In the past four days alone, Oxford's classicists have used it to make a series of astonishing discoveries, including writing by Sophocles, Euripides, Hesiod and other literary giants of the ancient world, lost for millennia. They even believe they are likely to find lost Christian gospels, the originals of which were written around the time of the earliest books of the New Testament.
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Re: Rewrite the history of the world
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2005, 08:02:27 am »
I like to think I'm a Stand-up Philosopher.  ;D
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Re: Rewrite the history of the world
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2005, 09:24:06 am »
Actually, I'd like to see it all posted for the public...(digs up old Greek lectionary ęoļ )

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Re: Rewrite the history of the world
« Reply #3 on: April 17, 2005, 02:33:16 pm »
Quote from: Father Ted on April 17, 2005, 08:02:27 am
I like to think I'm a Stand-up Philosopher.  ;D

oh u mean a bullsh*t artist  lol   +1
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Re: Rewrite the history of the world
« Reply #4 on: April 17, 2005, 03:07:10 pm »
Quote from: manitoba1073 on April 17, 2005, 02:33:16 pm
Quote from: Father Ted on April 17, 2005, 08:02:27 am
I like to think I'm a Stand-up Philosopher.  ;D

oh u mean a bullsh*t artist  lol   +1

I'm still waiting for Part II.

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Re: Rewrite the history of the world
« Reply #5 on: April 17, 2005, 04:30:42 pm »
Quote from: IKV Nemesis on April 17, 2005, 03:07:10 pm
Quote from: manitoba1073 on April 17, 2005, 02:33:16 pm
Quote from: Father Ted on April 17, 2005, 08:02:27 am
I like to think I'm a Stand-up Philosopher.  ;D

oh u mean a bullsh*t artist  lol   +1

I'm still waiting for Part II.

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yeah me too.  i think hitler on ice would laugh me up.  or jews in space    lol :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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Re: Rewrite the history of the world
« Reply #6 on: April 18, 2005, 09:36:02 pm »
Quote from: manitoba1073 on April 17, 2005, 04:30:42 pm
Quote from: IKV Nemesis on April 17, 2005, 03:07:10 pm
Quote from: manitoba1073 on April 17, 2005, 02:33:16 pm
Quote from: Father Ted on April 17, 2005, 08:02:27 am
I like to think I'm a Stand-up Philosopher.  ;D

oh u mean a bullsh*t artist  lol   +1

I'm still waiting for Part II.

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yeah me too.  i think hitler on ice would laugh me up.  or jews in space    lol :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Jews in space has been done, think Spaceballs....
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