The drive to digitize ancient manuscripts is growing quickly, and in the process, scholars are discovering works they never realized they had. The current technology is good enough that scholars can make sense of scrolls too delicate to be unrolled, charred or blackened by fire, or painted over.
Among the discoveries are “never-before-seen versions of the Christian Gospels, fragments of Greek poetry and commentaries on Aristotle” as well as an “alternate version of the Greek play Medea…written by Greek playwright Neophron” wherein Medea doesn’t kill her children. And yet this only scratches the surface of what’s still out there to be preserved.
