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Crowdsourcing Ancient Egyptian Scrolls

Posted by samzenpus on from the ancient-group-work dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Dons at Oxford University were on the BBC Radio 4 'Today' program this morning asking for help from listeners to transcribe unearthed ancient Egyptian texts and scrolls via their website. Visitors to the site are asked to match-up letters on scanned fragments of papyrus with an on-screen Greek alphabet. By doing so, they can help reveal some of the amazing documents that the ancient Egyptians last read. You too can become a papyrologist!"

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  1. Oh fuck Hellenistic period Egypt! by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Greek? You expect me to help translate Ptolemaic period shit?!?!? Do I *look* like Alexander the Fucking Great to you?

    You want my help, you better throw down some hieroglyphs, bitch!

    --
    SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.