Oxyrhynchus

That very exciting piece of paper is still being deciphered. The Oxyrhynchus papyrus.

The great part is that the technology derived from the space program, technology used to map Mars, is what made this all possible. Proof that the space program really does affect us personally.

According to sources, scholars have deciphered 70 lines from a lost Sophocles play and 30 lines from a poet that chronicled the Trojan War. Now won't that be interesting. These are NEW sources, not lost sources. The Trojan War fragment confirmed what scholars already thought, that the Greeks got lost on their way to Troy. We are already learning from it.

There are over half a million pieces left to decipher. Wow.

(Source: information paraphrased from http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20050519-054659-1081r accessed on May 20, 2005.)