Oxyrhynchus

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Egyptian archaeological site preserving a papyrus with the Saros cycle

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Marguerite JohnsonHistory of Philosophy Without Any Gaps · HoP 500a Marguerite Johnson on Sappho · 9:58 · today
…may sound unusual, but is not so to classicist and papyrologists, is that most of this material we have comes from this massive collection we call the Oxyrhynchus papyri, named after the location Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, where a huge collection of papyri was discovered in the 19th and 20th centuries.…
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Dr Emma SouthonBetwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · Slavery in the Roman Empire · 17:21 · 1 Sep
…We have from Oxyrhynchus all of the like papyrus.…
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Yann MartelThe Book Show · Yann Martel flips the script on a Greek classic · 20:01 · 7 Jun
…He gets to work on the Oxyrhynchus papyri, which is a true find from 1890 to 1902 by these British papyrologists, Grenfell and Hunt.…
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Dr. Moudhy Al-RashidThe Ancients · Origins of Astronomy · 53:20 · May 2025
…There's an Oxyrhynchus papyrus fragment from Egypt that has, I'm……
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