Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” ...
(Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities/Facebook) Here's something archaeologists don't see every day, or indeed ever: ...
A Roman‑era tomb in Egypt’s Minya Governorate has yielded bizarrely ordained mummies, rare papyri, and artifacts that ...
A papyrus that contains part of Homer's "Iliad" has been discovered inside the abdomen of a mummy in Egypt. Other mummies at ...
A rare discovery in the sands of Egypt is offering a startling new glimpse into ancient burial rites: archaeologists have ...
The excerpt from Homer's epic poem features his catalog of ships, a famous passage listing the Greek forces that sailed to ...
An extraordinary archaeological discovery has been made in Egypt's Minya Governorate, where a Roman-era tomb containing mummies with golden tongues has been unearthed at the historic site of ...
Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced that a Spanish archaeological mission from the University of Barcelona ...
Archaeologists had previously uncovered Greek papyri in mummies, but this discovery marks the first time a literary text has ...
It might have been mummy’s favorite bedtime story. Archaeologists found part of Homer’s “The Iliad” stuffed inside a ...
In a historic first, archeologists excavating an ancient Egyptian tomb have found a fragment of Homer's poem The Iliad ...