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City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek Lives in Roman Egypt

By Peter Parsons

Book information

Publisher
Phoenix
Year
2007
ISBN
0753822334, 9780753822333
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2037336 bytes)
Pages
288\0
Time added
2017-06-28 13:11:58
Africa;Central Africa;East Africa;North Africa;Sou

Description

In 1897 two Oxford archaeologists began digging in a sand-covered mound 100 miles south of Cairo. When they finished ten years later, they had uncovered 500,000 fragments of papyri from the ruins of the city of Oxyrhynchus. The work of deciphering these fragments is still ongoing.

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