| During the Ptolemaic Period (305-30 B.C.), Egypt was ruled by a Greek dynasty, which was followed by a Roman Period (30 B.C.-323 A.D.). Most of the rich Hearst collections from these periods come from the site of Tebtunis (the modern Tell Umm el-Breigat). In 1899-1900, Phoebe Hearst sponsored excavations there by British papyrologists Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt. Stuffed into human and crocodile mummies were thousands of ancient Greek and Egyptian texts, now preserved in UC's Bancroft Library. Artifacts came from a village with several houses, parts of the main temple, and eight cemeteries.
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