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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...

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...

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

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...

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.

A 1,600-Year-Old Mummy Was Found With Homer’s Iliad Hidden Inside

Somewhere inside a 1,600-year-old mummy, tucked against its abdomen, lay one of the most famous poems ever written. The archaeologists who found it had no idea what they were looki...

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Strange Discovery: Fragment Of Homer’s Iliad Hidden Inside Ancient Mummy

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The discovery marks a significant milestone in archaeology: for the first time, a Greek literary text has been found intentionally incorporated in...

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...

When Greek Hero Achilles Fell in Love with an Amazon

The famed ancient Greek hero Achilles was known as a fierce warrior, but the deeply emotional story of his love for the Amazon Queen Penthesilea is less well known. According to Gr...

Ithaca Bound

"We tell the myths out of context, reinterpret the events through the lenses of our time, reinterpret the people to be the kinds of heroes we want," writes Luke Babb. Continue read...