event
Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Also known as Grenfell and Hunt excavations (1896-1907)
undated
Excavation of the Oxyrhynchus rubbish mounds yielding the Greek Thomas fragments and many NT papyri.
Wikipedia extract
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri are a group of manuscripts discovered during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by papyrologists Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt at an ancient rubbish dump near Oxyrhynchus in Egypt.
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