The excerpt from Homer's epic poem features his catalog of ships, a famous passage listing the Greek forces that sailed to ...

A papyrus that contains part of Homer's "Iliad" has been discovered inside the abdomen of a mummy in Egypt. Other mummies at ...

Egyptian mummies were frequently embalmed using repurposed bits of papyrus with religious texts and other spiritual passages ...

Archaeologists have found a copy of Homer’s Iliad stuffed inside an ancient Egyptian mummy buried in a 1,600-year-old tomb.

Archaeologists have found a papyrus copy of Homer’s Iliad in the gut of an ancient Egyptian mummy, the first time ever that a ...

The historical text found inside the mummy was The Iliad, one of the most important works in Western literature.

The Oxyrhynchus Archaeological Mission, run by the Institute of Ancient Near East Studies (IPOA) at the University of ...

The discovery was made in the Al Bahnasa area, 190 kilometers from Cairo. “It reflects the richness and diversity of Egyptian ...

Archaeologists in Poland have made a remarkable discovery while examining a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy. During the first-ever comprehensive scientific investigation of the ancient remains, ...

Archaeologists in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, have uncovered a 1,600-year-old mummy containing a papyrus fragment from Homer’s Iliad, ...

The intricate mysteries of ancient Egyptian mummification are being unraveled at Semmelweis University in Hungary, where researchers have employed a state-of-the-art photon-counting CT scanner to ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a fragment from Homer’s Iliad inside the chest cavity of a 1,600-year-old mummy at Al-Bahnasa, ancient Oxyrhynchus. The section, known as the Catalog of Ships, ...