City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish
Greek Lives in Roman Egypt
(Author) Prof Peter Parsons
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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 Oxyrhynchos. The work of deciphering these fragments is still ongoing.
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Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
None
Language:
en
ISBN:
9780753822333
Publish year:
2007
Publish date:
Dec. 1, 2007