City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek Papyri Beneath the Egyptian Sand Reveal a Long-Lost World
London: Phoenix, 2007. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback.
Second printing. Front cover and spine creased.
xxiii, 258 pp. In 1897 two Oxford archaeologists began digging a mound south of Cairo. Ten years later, they had uncovered 500,000 fragments of papyri. Shipped back to Oxford, the meticulous and scholarly work of deciphering.....