{"id":8607,"date":"2017-08-28T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8607"},"modified":"2017-09-12T11:51:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T18:51:42","slug":"lost-languages-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/08\/28\/lost-languages-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Languages Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/edition\/news\/scientists-discover-lost-languages-in-find-at-egyptian-monastery-qkvd6l9ps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from The Times of India<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Scientists discover lost languages at Egyptian monastery<\/h1>\n<p>by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/profile\/tom-whipple\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-tracking=\"{&quot;event_navigation_name&quot;:&quot;byline: Tom Whipple&quot;}\">Tom Whipple<\/a>, Science Editor<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/imageserver\/image\/methode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F85954558-8b69-11e7-a5d5-0066a735a5c3.jpg\" alt=\"The library at Saint Catherine\u2019s monastery has been in continuous use for 1,500 years\" width=\"480\" \/><em>The library at Saint Catherine\u2019s monastery has been in continuous use for 1,500 years \/\u00a0<small>KHALED ELFIQI<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"Article-content \">\n<p>Ancient works not read by humans since the Dark Ages have been found at an Egyptian monastery, using a technique that allows researchers to reconstruct documents long ago scrubbed off parchment.<\/p>\n<p>The finds at Saint Catherine\u2019s monastery on the Sinai peninsula hailed a \u201cnew golden age of discovery\u201d, according to the scientists behind the research, who believe that the methods could reveal many other lost texts.<\/p>\n<p>They have been chronicling the monastery\u2019s library, which has been in continuous use for 1,500 years, but which is today threatened by growing Islamic fundamentalism and attacks on Christians in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Among the discoveries were three ancient Greek medical texts that were previously unknown to scholars, as well as the earliest copies of some from Hippocrates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ArticleMarketing ArticleMarketing--footer Article-container ArticleMarketing--form\">[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/edition\/news\/scientists-discover-lost-languages-in-find-at-egyptian-monastery-qkvd6l9ps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at The Times of India<\/a> ]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Times of India Scientists discover lost languages at Egyptian monastery by\u00a0Tom Whipple, Science Editor The library at Saint Catherine\u2019s monastery has been in continuous use for 1,500 years \/\u00a0KHALED ELFIQI Ancient works not read by humans since the Dark Ages have been found at an Egyptian monastery, using a technique that allows researchers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}