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Show FIND ANCIENT PAPYRI. University of California Scientists Make Rare Discovery. San Francisco, May 30. The scientists employed in Egypt by Mrs. Phoebe Hearst have unearthed a treasure for the University of California. At Gharak-El-Fayum. in Upper Egypt. Messrs. Gren-fell Gren-fell and Hunt, the well known Esrvmol-ogists. Esrvmol-ogists. have made the biggest find of Ptolemic papyri' recorded in the historv of Egyptian exploration. They have sent to England eight packing cases contain- 1 ing papyrus, with early Ptolemaic inscriptions, in-scriptions, a packing case of crocodile papyri (Ptolemaic) and three cases of other Ptolemaic papyri. The collection is larger than all extant collections of Ptolemaic Ptol-emaic papyri taken together and will most of it come to California. |