Tag: Papyrus
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Oh, Oxyrhynchus!

What a fun word to say! Oxy-REEN-cus. Say that at the next family dinner to impress all your loved ones. Oxyrhynchus was an ancient Egyptian City that resided along a canal that fed into the upper Nile River. During the time of Alexander the Great, this became a prosperous Hellenistic City—the third largest in Egypt.…