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CT Scans Reveal Details of Egyptian Mummies

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY—Ancient Egyptian mummified remains in the collection of the MNMKK Semmelweis Museum of Medical […] The post CT Scans Reveal Details of Egyptian Mummies appeared f...

Inside 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummies: CT scans expose skulls, disease, and a mysterious missing toe

Ancient Mummy Found with Iliad Text

Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced that a Spanish archaeological mission from the University of Barcelona along with the Institute of the Ancient Near East worki...

Medical Scans Reveal Hidden Secrets Inside Ancient Egyptian Mummies

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Раскрыты тайны египетских мумий возрастом 2300 лет

Ученые просканировали египетские мумии на томографе нового поколения. Аппарат выявил остеопороз, уточнил возраст останков и опроверг старые описания музейных экспонатов.

Archaeologists Find Egyptian Mummy Buried With the ‘Iliad’

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

Passage from Homer’s Iliad discovered in the abdomen of a Roman-era Egyptian mummy

A snippet of text from Homer’s famous epic recounting the siege of Troy was apparently placed inside this body as part of the mummification process

Someone put the dullest part of The Iliad inside a mummy

The excavation of a Roman-era cemetery in Egypt has revealed a 1600-year-old mummy that had been entombed with a papyrus containing an fragment from Homer's epic The Iliad at its a...

The Many Evolutions of the Cinematic Mummy

Mummies have graced films for over a century — but their history is a bit wilder than other movie "monsters." The post The Many Evolutions of the Cinematic Mummy appeared first on...

3,000-year-old Egyptian amulet found in Spanish tomb shocks archaeologists

Archaeologists Just Unearthed An Ancient Egyptian Mummy With A Papyrus Of ‘The Iliad’ Tucked Inside Its Wrapping

A papyrus found within the wrappings of an ancient Egyptian mummy contains a passage from Book 2 of The Iliad that lists the Greek ships sent out to fight in the Trojan War. The po...

Ancient Egyptian Mummy Found Wrapped In Something Never Seen Before

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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 evidence of cultural practices in Roman Egypt. More than...

Fragments of Homer’s <em>Iliad</em> Found Buried with Roman-Era Mummy

Learn about “papyrus packets” placed on mummies during funerary rituals.

The best-preserved ancient human ever found had 130 melon seeds in her stomach

When archaeologists opened the tomb of Xin Zhui (Lady Dai) at Mawangdui in Changsha in 1972, they found a body that had been dead for over 2,100 years but retained elastic skin, fl...

Archaeologists Discover Ancient Egyptian Mummy Buried with Pages from Homer’s Iliad: When Literature Guided Souls Throug...

Renaissance Europe admired ancient Rome, ancient Rome admired ancient Greece, and ancient Greece admired ancient Egypt. But the admiration could actually go both ways in that last...

The stomach of an Egyptian mummy concealed a copy of the Iliad – Archaeologists were stunned (photos)

The mummy had been buried during the Roman period in Oxyrhynchus about 1,600 years ago. It is the first time a Greek literary text has been found embedded in a mummy’s body as part...

Circular Mass Graves East of the Nile Are Rewriting Egypt’s Prehistory

Over 280 ancient mass graves have been discovered east of the Nile, and the monuments predate ancient Egypt.

Egypt unveils two restored New Kingdom tombs in Luxor

By Sayed SheashaLUXOR, Egypt, May 14 (Reuters) - Egyptian authorities on Thursday unveiled two restored ancient tombs on the West Bank of Luxor that date back to the New Kingdom an...

Archaeologists Discover 3,000-Year-Old Egyptian Scrolls

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered rare papyrus scrolls approximately 3,000 years old, according to Egyptian officials. The post Archaeologists Discover 3,000-Year-Old Egyptia...

Archaeologists Discover 3,000-Year-Old Egyptian Scrolls

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered rare papyrus scrolls approximately 3,000 years old, according to Egyptian officials. The post Archaeologists Discover 3,000-Year-Old Egyptia...

Archaeologists Just Found 260 Mysterious Burial Monuments Across The Sahara That Were Built Before The Egyptian Pyramids

Archaeologists recently identified 260 enclosure burials in Sudan's Atbai Desert that date back as far as 4000 B.C.E. and hold the remains of humans and livestock from an unknown n...

Experts stunned after uncovering Homer's 'Iliad' on Egyptian mummy in unprecedented find

Archaeologists in Egypt found a rare fragment of Homer's "Iliad" atop a Roman-era mummy, the first literary text ever found in a funerary context, experts said.

Roman-Era Tomb Excavated in Upper Egypt

MINYA, EGYPT—According to an Ahram Online report, a Roman-era tomb has been discovered in Upper […] The post Roman-Era Tomb Excavated in Upper Egypt appeared first on Archaeology M...