Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” ...

Archaeologists had previously uncovered Greek papyri in mummies, but this discovery marks the first time a literary text has ...

Many centuries later, Roman-era embalmers in the Egyptian desert took those same verses and tucked them inside the gut of a ...

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

Archaeologists have found a copy of Homer’s Iliad stuffed inside an ancient Egyptian mummy buried in a 1,600-year-old tomb.

The discovery is a major first for ancient Egyptian scientists.

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

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

The Oxyrhynchus Archaeological Mission, run by the Institute of Ancient Near East Studies (IPOA) at the University of ...

A 1,600-year-old burial at Oxyrhynchus just rewrote what experts thought they knew about mummification rituals.

A Roman-era burial site in Egypt has produced a surprising archaeological find. A fragment of Homer’s Iliad was discovered ...

How did a papyrus of Homer’s Iliad end up inside a mummy? That is the question a team of archaeologists in Egypt is now ...