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An entertaining talk and performance revealing the purchase of Egyptian antiquities in Late Victorian Manchester, with projection of slides and reading of the unpublished correspondence of the archaeologists, librarians and sponsors involved in the formation of the John Rylands papyri collection.
Thu 1 Mar 2012 6pm - 7.30pm
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150 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 3EH,
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Free
18+
Egyptology
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