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[[Image:ac.oxyrhynchus.jpg|frame|There are few remains at Oxyrhynchus to be seen above ground: its treasures lie beneath the sands]]
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'''Oxyrhynchus'''
([[Greek language|Gr]].
&Omicron;&xi;&upsilon;&rho;&upsilon;&nu;&chi;&omicron;&sigmaf; ''Oxyrhynkhos'')
is an archaeological site in [[Egypt]], one of the most important ever discovered. For the past century the area around Oxyrhynchus has been continuously excavated, yielding an enormous collection of [[papyrus]] texts from the [[Hellenistic]], [[Roman]] and [[Byzantine]] periods of Egyptian history. Among the texts discovered at Oxyrhynchus are plays of [[Menander]] and the [[Gospel of Thomas]], an important early [[Christian]] document.

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