Wow, this is amazing.
What would be more interesting than the plays and poetry would be things like personal letters, which would give us an insight into how these people really lived. I wonder if stuff like that is in that collection.
quite right...I went to the 'London-based, Egypt Exploration Society' website, can't find any updayes - yet -
"What would be more interesting than the plays and poetry would be things like personal letters, which would give us an insight into how these people really lived. I wonder if stuff like that is in that collection."
I agree that would be great, but I do doubt it. These are works from a library, and I can't see that they would be collecting personal letters. The big thing right now though is that we really don't know what's on the papyri, as there are thousands of them. Let's keep our fingers crossed :)