Follow-up

Sounds like that bit about the Oxyrhynchus fragments a week or so back was a bit over-hyped. From the New York Sun today:

These reports in the press drew the interest of scholars, but questions were unanswered. After all, this technology was hardly new - it's been available for a decade. And researchers had been applying it to manuscripts from Oxyrhynchus for the past few years. It should not have been surprising that the Oxyrhynchus researchers had discovered new classical works: That is what they do, having uncovered almost 70 volumes worth of fragments in the past century.

— from A 'Second Renaissance'? Well, Maybe a Little One in the New York Sun

More at that link. Still, it's rather cool to think this is going on, even if the 'discoveries' trumpeted in the Independent are kinda routine from the persepective of folk who know the field.