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Help transcribe Egyptian 'gossip' BBC Radio 4

Postby M Paul Lloyd » Jul 27th, '11, 06:01

Missed this, sorry. Yesterday on the Today progamme on BBC Radio 4
Dons at Oxford University are calling on the public to help them transcribe ancient fragments of papyrus scrolls.
Leader of the Ancient Lives project , Chris Lintott talks about what the public can do to help figure out the "incredible lost texts".

Catch up with it here, and why not give it ago? ;)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/ne ... 548465.stm
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Re: Help transcribe Egyptian 'gossip' BBC Radio 4

Postby Healerman » Jul 27th, '11, 07:05

That's a cool kind of outsourcing. 8-)
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