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Roman Egypt

Egypt under Roman rule, from the late first century B.C. into late antiquity, whose dry conditions preserved much of the surviving Greek and Egyptian written record.

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Cataloguing Utrecht's Egyptian manuscripts turned up a pocket Odyssey copied around AD 300

Mark de Kreij spotted verses from Book 12 on a scrap of parchment inside a collection Utrecht's library bought in the mid-20th century. About 30 comparable fragments are known, and his full catalogue is still to come.

Publishers:livescience.com

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