Last summer brought big news for scholars of early Christianity. Three previously unknown gospel fragments were published for the first time as part of an ongoing series, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. These ...
On October 14, the Egypt Exploration Society (EES) announced that 13 texts (12 papyri and one parchment text) had gone missing from its collection housed at the University of Oxford, and ended up in ...
In 1896, two young archaeologists, Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt, began to excavate the ancient garbage dump at Oxyrhynchus (modern Al-Bahnasa) in Egypt. Their task was not to dust ...
Rachael Kohn: Oxyrhynchus: the name conjures Raiders of the Lost Ark! But in the early 1900s, the ancient discoveries at Oxyrhynchus, in Egypt, were so abundant and accessible, there was no need for ...
Series 7, Silt The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Aleks visited Dr. Dirk Obbink at the Sackler Library in Oxford, where he showed her some of the extraordinary documents within the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, which were ...
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