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

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

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

Several other mummies, three golden tongues, and a tongue made of copper were also discovered during excavations.

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

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

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

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

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 ...

A Spanish-Egyptian team have uncovered a fragment of Homer’s Iliad inside a mummy at Oxyrhynchus, revealing how ancient texts ...