The long-term enterprise to decipher, reconstruct and publish the papyri found at Oxyrhynchus represents a collaboration between the British Academy, which adopted it as a Major Research Project in 1966, the Egypt Exploration Society, which funds the publication, the AHRB, which has given the project a five-year grant, the host …
In June 2009, the British Academy hosted a workshop to discuss some of the exciting new texts pieced together by the Oxyrhynchus Papyri project – followed in the evening by a public presentation. Professor Peter Parsons FBA describes how these fragmentary documents give a unique insight into Greco-Roman civilisation.
Vivian Nutton is Emeritus Professor of the History of Medicine at University College London, and a Fellow of the British Academy. An event on ‘New light on ancient medicine’ was held on 17 May 2011.
The following is an extract from Sir Frederic Kenyon’s 1921 Presidential Address on ‘The Fellowship of Learning’, in which he took as his cue Francis Bacon’s Instauratio Magna (1620) and its ‘vision of the Kingdom of Knowledge, the ideal of the Fellowship of Learning, which our Academy exists to foster …
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