For the deceased of Roman-era Egypt, Greek literature may have offered a cheat code to a more comfortable afterlife.

Archaeologists in Egypt unearthed a sealed packet of the epic poem resting atop a Roman-era mummy, suggesting they may have ...

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Archaeologists have found something unexpected inside a 1,600-year-old Roman-era Egyptian mummy: a fragment of Homer's Iliad.

The discovery was made at Oxyrhynchus, an ancient burial site in central Egypt, by a team from the University of Barcelona ...

Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” stuck to its abdomen, in a first-of-its-kind discovery.

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Archaeologists had previously uncovered Greek papyri in mummies, but this discovery marks the first time a literary text has been found incorporated into the mummification process.

Found in Egypt, the papyrus confirms that Homer was everywhere in the ancient Mediterranean.