NEW PLAY BY AESCHYLUS! I forget where I found this.

“Cyprus’s national theater company, Thoc, plans a modern-day world premiere of Aeschylus’s Trojan War story Achilles in Cyprus next summer. The play will then be performed in Cyprus and Greece.

“Scholars had believed the trilogy to be lost forever when the Library of Alexandria burned to ashes in 48 BC.

‘But in the last decades archaeologists found mummies in Egypt which were stuffed with papyrus, containing excerpts of the original plays of Aeschylus,’ Thoc director Andy Bargilly told Reuters….”

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