Crowd Sourced Archeology

I read this really interesting article today about a new site that uses crowd sourcing to help translate portions of Greek text from Oxyrhynchus, Egypt. The site is called ancientlives.org

I tried it out today and it is kind of like a puzzle because it isn't actual translation - users simply identify Greek letters on pictures of papyrus manuscripts. Oxyrhynchus is one of Egypt's oldest Christian centers which is known because it is the location of some of the oldest ancient manuscripts of the New Testament. Today there are still hundreds (maybe thousands) of manuscripts still untranslated.