Oxyrhynchus
Ancient city · Egypt
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 28.536, 30.656
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: древнеегипетский город
History
Oxyrhynchus, also known by its modern name Al-Bahnasa, is a city in Middle Egypt located about 160 km south-southwest of Cairo in Minya Governorate. It is also an important archaeological site. Since the late 19th century, the area around Oxyrhynchus has been excavated almost continually, yielding an enormous collection of papyrus texts dating from the Ptolemaic Kingdom and Roman Egypt. They also include a few vellum manuscripts, and more recent Arabic manuscripts on paper.