# Forget the Da Vinci Code, \*this\* is cooler: the Oxyrhynchus Papyri decoded

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**Created:** [April 18, 2005, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-the-da-vinci-code-this-is-cooler-the-oxyrhynchus-papyri-decoded/299899 "2005-04-18T15:10:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-the-da-vinci-code-this-is-cooler-the-oxyrhynchus-papyri-decoded/299899/1 "2005-04-18T15:10:21Z")

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[Link here](http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=630165)

As a classics and mythology student, I just have to say:

Word. 🆒 🆒 🆒

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**Author:** ![Banger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@Banger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banger)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-the-da-vinci-code-this-is-cooler-the-oxyrhynchus-papyri-decoded/299899/2 "2005-04-18T16:38:54Z")

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I hope they find some complete plays from Sophocles and Euripides 🙂

Unfortunately, it sounds like all they may have are fragments. Still, it’s an amazing discovery.

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**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-the-da-vinci-code-this-is-cooler-the-oxyrhynchus-papyri-decoded/299899/3 "2005-04-18T16:40:11Z")

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Pretty amazing! I am duly impressed. Please start another thread when you hear more and can get a link to some of these writings!

My only puzzlement…how is it that all of these great works were found - together, no less - in one “dump” area? Evil ancient librarian tossed them or what?

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-the-da-vinci-code-this-is-cooler-the-oxyrhynchus-papyri-decoded/299899/4 "2005-04-18T17:45:56Z")

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[**Ancient Texts Revealed! IR Photography.**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=312485)

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