Thursday, March 24, 2016
Ancient Egypt's Most Literate Trash Heap
Oxyrhynchus, Ancient Egypt's Most Literate Trash Heap: It's basically the closest thing we have to discovering the Library of Alexandria in a landfill. Academics familiar with it throw around terms like "unparalleled importance" and "holy grail" and aren't trying to be hyperbolic. It contained a lot of other ancient literature that would otherwise be totally lost–most famously a Sophocles comedy and the poetry of Sappho–not to mention extensive details about everyday life in Egypt, Greece, and Rome. It also held the biggest cache of early Christian manuscripts ever discovered.
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Life is often more amazing than anything we can make up about it...
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