If you’ve ever wanted to experience what it would be like to be one of those who spends hours trying to transcribe papyri now is your chance! J.J. Johnston sent me an email to a website created by the University of Oxford where you can examine papyri from Oxyrhynchus. You can access it here.
Whatever you do make sure you wear your strongest pair of glasses!
Update: The Daily Mail has written a full story on this topic.
the archives near Emmaus 
I can’t even tell you how happy this makes me.
@Refe: Here’s a full news story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2018848/Oxford-University-appeals-help-transcribing-200-000-ancient-Greek-letters.html?ITO=1490#
I can see why they think there is something gospel-related in there. Lot’s of New Testament-y words like MARTURION that I’ve spotted. The grammar is not all the same though – I’ve already come across a couple of vocatives and optatives, both of which are rare in NT Greek.
@Refe: Do you think it is older that the NT?
I am no expert at dating manuscripts. All I can tell so far is that there are a pretty wide variety of handwriting styles and scripts being used throughout these fragments. It seems like there is probably more than one time-frame represented among them, but that is really just a guess.
@Refe: Have you figured out how to change the lighting on the documents? I used the option but didn’t see any change.
I don’t think you can – I think the color/opacity/size options are just for the tags that you put on letters to identify them. There is an option to report bad contrast when you click ‘issues’ but that seems to be about it.