Something very old, something very new

I kind of find it fun how my line of research combines the very very old and the very very new. On one hand, the sources I use were inscribed in stone or written over two millenia ago. On the other, a pretty common image of Classical scholars is probably people sitting in libraries reading dusty manuscripts (not a word of archaeology here, it's a whole other pot of tea). Not so. Not any longer. For example, the majority of the inscription sources are available in a freely accessible online database (as transcribed Greek texts, the way they were published in text). And check this: the Greek and Latin dictionaries that I - and lots of other students and cholars of the field - use a lot are available as iPhone applications, costing a few euros a pop! That's about as new as it gets. Well done by Apple to authorize those apps!