Egypt
The article from Biblical Archaeological Review is on the discovery of papyri at the beginning of the last century near the Upper Egyptian village of el-Behnesa. Two Oxford scholars named Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt were searching the rubbish dumps which lay around the ancient remains of the city of Oxyrhynchus when large quantities of papyrus scraps and full documents began to come to light.
Many of the documents were receipts and known literature's but some contained unknown passages of Jesus and the scriptures. Through the course of five seasons the archaeologists would retrieve a half a million documents including lost works from the writers of the classic world such as Sappho, Homer, Plato and a lost comedy by Sophocles and more.
Generations later the Oxyrhynchus papyri collection is still being studied in Oxford and in Cairo.
- Book Review: Greetings In The Lord
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (review by Roberta Mazza) AnneMarie Luijendijk, Greetings in the Lord: Early Christians and the Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Harvard Theological Studies 60. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Divinity School, 2008. The city of Oxyrhynchus has...
- Oxyrhynchus - The Dustbin Of History
Guardian Unlimited (Khaled Diab) Our collective memory of the past is mostly confined to grand figures and epic events, while the vast majority of humanity ends up in the wastelands of oblivion. Thanks to nearly half a million papyrus fragments uncovered...
- Mysteries Of Ancient Egyptian Papyri Revealed
http://nn.byu.edu/story.cfm/63063Thanks very much to Chris Townsend for this article from 14th February, which I missed:"Three BYU professors have uncovered mysteries in ancient Egyptian writings aided by new technology that allows people to see inscriptions...
- More On The Oxyrhynchus Papyri
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/31/features/hype.php An article which describes some of the responses to The Independent's article about the Oxyrhynchus papyri: "Unearthed from centuries-old garbage dumps in central Egypt in the late 19th century,...
- More On The Oxyrhynchus Papyrii
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/04/0425_050425_papyrus.html "Salvaged from an ancient garbage dump in Egypt, the collection is kept at Oxford University in England. Known as the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, the collection includes writings by great...
Egypt
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri
The article from Biblical Archaeological Review is on the discovery of papyri at the beginning of the last century near the Upper Egyptian village of el-Behnesa. Two Oxford scholars named Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt were searching the rubbish dumps which lay around the ancient remains of the city of Oxyrhynchus when large quantities of papyrus scraps and full documents began to come to light.
Many of the documents were receipts and known literature's but some contained unknown passages of Jesus and the scriptures. Through the course of five seasons the archaeologists would retrieve a half a million documents including lost works from the writers of the classic world such as Sappho, Homer, Plato and a lost comedy by Sophocles and more.
Generations later the Oxyrhynchus papyri collection is still being studied in Oxford and in Cairo.
- Book Review: Greetings In The Lord
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (review by Roberta Mazza) AnneMarie Luijendijk, Greetings in the Lord: Early Christians and the Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Harvard Theological Studies 60. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Divinity School, 2008. The city of Oxyrhynchus has...
- Oxyrhynchus - The Dustbin Of History
Guardian Unlimited (Khaled Diab) Our collective memory of the past is mostly confined to grand figures and epic events, while the vast majority of humanity ends up in the wastelands of oblivion. Thanks to nearly half a million papyrus fragments uncovered...
- Mysteries Of Ancient Egyptian Papyri Revealed
http://nn.byu.edu/story.cfm/63063Thanks very much to Chris Townsend for this article from 14th February, which I missed:"Three BYU professors have uncovered mysteries in ancient Egyptian writings aided by new technology that allows people to see inscriptions...
- More On The Oxyrhynchus Papyri
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/31/features/hype.php An article which describes some of the responses to The Independent's article about the Oxyrhynchus papyri: "Unearthed from centuries-old garbage dumps in central Egypt in the late 19th century,...
- More On The Oxyrhynchus Papyrii
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/04/0425_050425_papyrus.html "Salvaged from an ancient garbage dump in Egypt, the collection is kept at Oxford University in England. Known as the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, the collection includes writings by great...