According to information given in the passage, which of the following locations would probably yield the highest probability of finding a previously undiscovered papyrus fragment?
A.
The ship of a royal messenger that sank off the Egyptian coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the third century B.C.
B.
The charred remnants of an ancient Egyptian palace that was burned by Roman troops in the first century B.C.
C.
The refuse heap of an ancient Egyptian town that was buried in the desert in the fifth century A.D.
D.
The private collections of French and British explorers from the nineteenth century A.D. who first uncovered many of the principal sites of Egyptian archeology
E.
The library of a Hellenistic fishing village that sank into the marshes of the Nile Delta in the third century A.D.