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

Peter Parsons

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

Peter Parsons

288 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction classics history challenging informative slow-paced
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In 1897 two Oxford archaeologists began digging a mound south of Cairo. Ten years later, they had uncovered 500,000 fragments of papyri. Shipped back to Oxford, the meticulous and scholarly work of deciphering these fragments began. It is still go...

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