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Ancient Egypt and the Tebtunis Papyri on the Shore of the Ocean of Stories

Ancient Egypt and the Tebtunis Papyri on the Shore of the Ocean of Stories

Presented by Todd Hickey, UC Berkeley and Brian Muhs, University of Leiden

Given at the Bancroft Centennial Symposium, February 10, 2006

Examines Egypt during the Graeco-Roman period, focusing on the Tebtunis papyri, which were found during a single expedition led by two British papyrologists in the winter of 1899/1900 at the village of ancient Tebtunis (near modern Umm-el-Baragat), Egypt.

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