The City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek Lives in Roman Egypt by Peter Parsons, Peter Parsons
The City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek Lives in Roman Egypt

Peter Parsons, Peter Parsons

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

Peter Parsons, Peter Parsons

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In 1897 two Oxford archaeologists began digging a low sand-covered mound a hundred miles south of Cairo. When they had finally finished, ten years later, they had uncovered 500,000 fragments of papyri. Shipped back to Oxford, the meticulous and sc...

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