Lost languages 'discovered' in Egyptian manuscripts

[Imperial Dave]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/lost-languages-found-ancient-manuscript-parchment-saint-catherine-monastery-sinai-peninsula-egypt-a7916346.html

all clever stuff

[Patrick Waterson]

With the right equipment and sufficient scholars, it might be possible to check every palimpsest in every collection.

I wonder what the Vatican Library might reveal.

[Imperial Dave]

the mind boggles at what is possibly waiting to be 'discovered'

[Andreas Johansson]

The thing needing scare quotes would seem to be "lost" - Caucasian Albanian, while obscure, is by no means unknown, and may even have a modern descendant in the Udi language.

(The only other language explicitly said to be found in the palimpsets is Arabic, which is about as un-lost as a language can be.)

[Dangun]

Now we just need them to find a legible version of Claudius' Etruscan History or Ctesis Persica, or similar lying under another copy of some religious text.

[Imperial Dave]

the list is endless of wished for and now lost manuscripts...!