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messages), Hut 5 (military intelligence focusing on
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Barns died suddenly on 23 February 1974. He was aged 61.
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Four martyrdoms from the Pierpont Morgan Coptic codices
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and Ancient Greek) in April 1935. He then approached
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1000:The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology
929:The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology
740:The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology
629:; Rea, John; Turner, E. G. (1966).
620:. Oslo: Norwegian University Press.
611:. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
602:. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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631:The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Part XXXI
270:Barns was born on 12 May 1912 in
873:Electronic Thesis Online Service
852:"Honour Moderations at Oxford".
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380:Service during World War II
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791:"Revd. J. W. B. Barns MSS"
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666:Barns, John W. B. (1978).
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256:Professor of Egyptology
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1097:British Egyptologists
875:. The British Library
609:Five Ramesseum papyri
482:Five Ramesseum Papyri
390:military intelligence
307:University of Bristol
145:University of Bristol
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1059:University of Oxford
987:accessed 14 Oct 2017
510:from excavations at
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294:. He taught himself
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