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Not totally Roman but this might be of interest to some people here. This was in a piece in the latest Minerva magazine.

'A new online archive of ancient inscriptions from the ancient Near East and Mediterranean aims to offer a scholarly resource through an online database of images. These written records, which are housed in an array of international museums and libraries, would otherwise be difficult for most people to accesss....Texts displayed include The Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as cuniform tablets from Mesopotamia and Canaan, papyri from Egypt, inscriptions carved on stones from Jordan and many more'.

[url:179vbumv]http://www.inscriptifact.com[/url]

Quote:Not totally Roman but this might be of interest to some people here. This was in a piece in the latest Minerva magazine.

'A new online archive of ancient inscriptions from the ancient Near East and Mediterranean aims to offer a scholarly resource through an online database of images. These written records, which are housed in an array of international museums and libraries, would otherwise be difficult for most people to accesss....Texts displayed include The Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as cuniform tablets from Mesopotamia and Canaan, papyri from Egypt, inscriptions carved on stones from Jordan and many more'.

[url:23u57q2d]http://www.inscriptifact.com[/url]

Great idea, but they want you to fax an application for a username and password?! About as up-to-date as impressing it in cuneiform on a clay tablet and (bandwidth-wise) hugely inefficient! It'll be great when the internet age finally reaches 'em ;-) ) Or is it just a way to ensure their server doesn't fall over through too much traffic?

Mike Bishop