Word: oxyrhynchus
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...Observatory Greenwich just launched Solar Stormwatch, which asks volunteers to track solar explosions captured on video by NASA's STEREO spacecraft. The idea is eventually to be able to predict these flare-ups, which interfere with satellites and endanger astronauts. Another project will task volunteers with translating the famous Oxyrhynchus Papyri, a cache of 50,000 Ptolemaic-era manuscript fragments from Egypt. Yet another will analyze footage of the New Caledonian crow in the wild. (It's one of the few nonprimate species to create and even modify tools...
...CLASSICAL CONFERENCE. "A Recent Discovery in Crete," Dr. G. H. Chase. "The Buskin in Greek Tragedy," Mr. K. K. Smith. "The Oxyrhynchus Epitome of Livy," Professor Clifford H. Moore. Sever...
...collection, which is a very interesting one, is made up of nineteen fragments, written in Greek, in different states of preservation, and of various sizes. Twelve of them were found at Oxyrhynchus, an Egyptian town, and the seven others came from various towns in the Fayum, a district west of the Nile valley. All of these fragments, with many more which have been found by the Egypt Exploration Fund, are described at some length in the publications of the Fund,--"The Oxyrhynchus Papyri," a work in two volumes by B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt of Oxford, and "Fayum...
Another fragment, number 2219, is a complaint from a weaver of Oxyrhynchus, to the strategos Tiberius Claudius Pasion, because Apoliophanes, a tax-collector, had extorted sixteen drachmae from...
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