This week, I should like to quickly highlight a marvellous innovation made by scholars at Oxford University: using the internet to help translate an ancient archive of knowledge. On the website, you are able to assist in the documenting of many thousands of manuscripts from the city of Oxyrhynchus.
It may seem a trivial thing to wish to discover what people wrote about many thousands of years before, but recall that in the future, we would doubtless like people to understand what it was that made us as a people.
I can only recommend that you assist these Oxford scholars – the more we understand of our history, the better we can appreciate the magnificence of mankind’s works.
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