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    Oxyrhynchus, modern el-Bahnasa, is a city in Upper Egypt, located south-southwest of Cairo, in the governorate of Al Minya. In ancient Egyptian times, there was a city on the site called Per-Medjed. It was the capital of the 19th Upper Egyptian Nome. After the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great in 332 BC, the city was reestablished as a Greek town, called Oxyrrhynkhoupolis. The area around Oxyrhynchus has been continually excavated, yielding an enormous collection of papyrus texts dating from the time of the Ptolemaic and Roman periods.
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    Oxyrhynchus
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    Egypt

    Minya Governorate

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    Second Millennium BC

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    Ptolemaic + Roman

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