[vannrox]

Very Interesting.

[stanz]

Thanks to Egypt's dry climate and warm desert sand, papyrus texts in fragile and fragmentary form have survived from many sites -- among them Fayoum and Middle and Upper Egypt --

I may be mistaken, but I thought the Fayum was located in an area near the Nile delta. If this is so, it would not be dry or conducive to preserving papyrus or anything organic. This is why the royal burials and other great caches of mummified remains have been concentrated in Upper Egypt.

[curmudgeonII]

How about a comment on why the library in Alexandria [the greatest in the ancient world] was burned?

[When the Muslims conquered Alexandria their leader said that anything written that was worthwhile was in the Koran. Everything else that wasn't in the Koran wasn't worth keeping.]

[combat_boots]

How WONDERFUL!