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

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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.

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It's the epic poem that's regarded as the cornerstone of Western literature - and it turns out Homer's Iliad was a must-read ...

Archaeologists excavating in Egypt have unearthed a papyrus fragment bearing verses from Homer's Iliad within the body of an ...

The mummy had been buried during the Roman period in Oxyrhynchus about 1,600 years ago. It is the first time a Greek literary ...