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The Tracking Satyrs

Ichneutae, or The Tracking Satyrs was a lost play by Sophocles, until fragments of it were discovered in early 20th Century Egypt.

Here, academics in the British Library explain the detective work needed to transform the scraps of papyrus from "ragged autumn leaves" into translatable text.

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14 minutes

Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project