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Fragments of two lost tragedies by Euripides discovered in an Egyptian papyrus

Two scholars from the University of Colorado Boulder have unearthed significant fragments from two lost tragedies by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides. This discovery, made after months of painstaking research, is hailed as one of the most substantial findings in over fifty years. The journe

The journey began in November 2022 when Basem Gehad, an archaeologist with the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, sent a papyrus to Yvona Trnka-Amrhein, an assistant professor of classics at the University of Colorado Boulder. Gehad and Trnka-Amrhein had recently collaborated on another remarkable archaeological find: the upper half of a colossal statue of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II, uncovered at Hermopolis Magna. A team of scientists from Chengdu University, led by academic Wang Chengshan, has published a study in the renowned journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the result…

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