Today's Wikipedia front page.
Proof that wikipedia's news pages share my sense of priorities:
Now, in a breakthrough described as the classical equivalent of finding the holy grail, Oxford University scientists have employed infra-red technology to open up the hoard, known as the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, and with it the prospect that hundreds of lost Greek comedies, tragedies and epic poems will soon be revealed.
In the past four days alone, Oxford's classicists have used it to make a series of astonishing discoveries, including writing by Sophocles, Euripides, Hesiod and other literary giants of the ancient world, lost for millennia. They even believe they are likely to find lost Christian gospels, the originals of which were written around the time of the earliest books of the New Testament.
I believe the expression most used on the internet to describe these sorts of occasions is 'w00t'.
Now, I'm aware that the emphasis in classical studies has changed somewhat, so that scholars are now somewhat more interested in finding out about the everyday lives of the Roman proles, and less interested in the great literary works than they were formerly, but it still is tremendously exciting.
Even though most of the papyri will be in Greek rather than Latin, I still think this is fantastic news. What treasures would SVR members most like to see unearthed? I think that if we're very lucky we'll get some of Sappho's poetry, perhaps some Tacitus. If we're unlucky, we'll get some of Cicero's poetry. I'm sure noster Scerio will be very pleased to find that there are apparently undiscovered gospels among the remains (surely these will emerge later and may yet outshine those found at Nag Hammadi).
The articles I've been able to find are sketchy at best. If anyone has an in-depth resource/article I'd be ever so grateful if they'd share.