Egyptian mummy unearthed with literary text on abdomen in first ever find

Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” ...

Mummy discovered with gold tongues, hidden literary text -- first of its kind

A rare discovery in the sands of Egypt is offering a startling new glimpse into ancient burial rites: archaeologists have ...

First-of-Its-Kind Discovery: Homer’s Iliad Found Embedded in a 1,600-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy

Researchers discovered an Iliad fragment in a mummy, marking the first literary papyrus used in embalming and offering new ...
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Ancient Egyptian mummy found wrapped in something never seen before

(Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities/Facebook) Here's something archaeologists don't see every day, or indeed ever: ...
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Papyrus Fragment of Homer’s Iliad Found in 1600–Year-old Mummy is First Time Literature is Discovered in a Burial

An Egyptian mummy was found buried with a papyrus fragment of a passage from Homer’s Iliad—the first time literature was seen ...
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Archaeologists Just Discovered a Fragment of Homer’s Iliad Inside an Ancient Egyptian Mummy

In a historic first, archeologists excavating an ancient Egyptian tomb have found a fragment of Homer's poem The Iliad ...

Archaeologists stunned to find copy of Homer’s Iliad inside ancient Egyptian mummy

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