Comment by aap_

It's in the picture, I presume. Just gotta brush up on that Koine Greek. Or if you read Egyptian hieroglyphs already, you can use the Rosetta Stone to reconstruct the Koine Greek from first principles.

This feels like a knee-jerk reaction. While it may be a relevant critique of some news releases about academic research… this one literally contains a thumbnail with a link to a sufficiently-high-resolution image of the document. You can read it by clicking on the only image in the article.

This isn't ready for the general public yet. When a new manuscript is discovered, the first stage is determining readings, which obviously is a process for experts consulting among themselves. Then, an edition of the original-language text is prepared and, again, if you aren't trained in Ancient Greek the text still isn't ready for you. Only then is a translation into a modern language created.

After that, you can probably read it online for free, whether through open access or the shadow libraries. Nobody is keeping anything from you.

I'm hoping in these verses Empedocles complains about crappy copper from a Babylonian merchant.

494 B.C.? Empedocles’ll DMCA you if you post them!

It will probably be processed into an edited edition and then published as a book.

I mean, it's still a pretty cool discovery.