How Much Do We Really Know About the Past?

Our knowledge of history is much less solid than we think

Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt before their remarkable discovery (public domain)

In 1896, two British archaeologists, Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt, decided to spend the next year or so excavating at a place called Oxyrhynchus, in Egypt. They were studying early Christianity, and they understood that this had been a center of the faith in ancient times. They worked for…