'''Oxyrhynchus''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: Οξύρρυγχος; "sharp-snouted or sharp-nosed"; ancient [[Egyptian language|Egyptian]] '''Per-Medjed'''; modern [[Egyptian Arabic]] '''el-Bahnasa''') is an [[archaeological site]] in [[Egypt]], 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 Egypt|Ptolemaic]] and [[Aegyptus (Roman province)|Roman]] periods of [[History of Egypt|Egyptian history]]. Among the texts discovered at Oxyrhynchus are plays of [[Menander]] and the [[Gospel of Thomas]], an important early [[Gnostic]] document.
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