As British people with traditional education, Gefei and Hunt are mainly interested in the lost Greek classics, which may be owned by O 'Keesey Rimkus. They know that Aristotle's Athens Constitution reappeared on Egyptian papyrus in 1890. This hope inspired them and their successors to continue sifting through piles of Rimkus garbage in the 20th century. Their efforts have paid off handsomely: it is estimated that more than 70% of the papyrus documents found so far come from Rimkus. These literary works are well known (the versions of many works are obviously closer to the original than those handed down in the Middle Ages); In addition, there are the lost works of great ancient writers.
Although thousands of papyrus have been unearthed from Rimkus, Oaksey, only about 10% of them are literary works. The rest are government and private documents: decrees, registers, official letters, census forms, tax bills, court records, contracts, wills, bills, accounts and private letters. However, the literary works discovered by Gefei and Hunter are enough to keep their hope of finding more works. In the first year of excavation, they found some parts of several Sophocles' plays, such as Ichneutae. In addition, there are many other fragments of books and documents, including the unknown Christian gospels at that time. These findings have aroused the public's imagination. Ge Fei and Hunter published articles and photos in British newspapers, gave reasons to show the importance of their work, and sought donations to maintain the excavation work.
Except during World War I, Gefei and Hunter focused on their work, dealing with cultural relics unearthed from Rimkus in Oaksey. During the ten years from 1896 to 1906, every winter, when the climate in Egypt is still good, they will supervise hundreds of Egyptian workers, dig up garbage mounds and dig up layers of tightly squeezed papyrus paper mixed with sand. Then the papyrus will be screened and preliminarily cleaned, and then transported to Gefei and Hunter's headquarters in Oxford. During the summer vacation, Gefei and Hunter will further clean up, sort out, translate and compare the documents unearthed in that year, and gather dozens of fragments and excerpts into a complete article. 1898, they published the first book about their discovery. The two worked closely together, revising each other's articles and publishing their works together. However, in 1920, Gefei died, leaving Hunter and other collaborators to continue their work until Hunter died in 1934. At the same time, Italian diggers returned to work at the site, and from 19 10 to 1934, more papyrus documents were excavated, some of which came from the same volume of ancient books discovered earlier by Gefei and Hunter.