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Wikipedia: Oxyrhynchus is a city in Upper Egypt, located about 160 km south-southwest of Cairo, in the governorate of Al Minya. It is also an archaeological site, considered one of the most important ever discovered. For the past century, the area around Oxyrhynchus has been continually excavated, yielding an enormous collection of papyrus texts dating from the time of the Ptolemaic and Roman periods of Egyptian history.
![[A picture of Oxyrhynchus]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Ac_papyrus_s.jpg "A picture of Oxyrhynchus")
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![[Oxyrhynchus papyrus (P.Oxy. I 29) showing fragment of Euclid's Elements]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Oxyrhynchus_papyrus_with_Euclid_27s_Elements_s.jpg "Oxyrhynchus papyrus (P.Oxy. I 29) showing fragment of Euclid's Elements")
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