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Can you read ancient Greek?
Dirk Obbink, classics professor at Oxford Univerisity, tells presenter Rebecca Kesby, about their discovery of Greek papyrus documents about one hundred years ago that still need to be deciphered. They are now seeing volunteers through crowd-sourcing to help translate these texts.
(Photo: Papyrus paper. Credit: Zoonar RF/Thinkstock)
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