1,600-year-old Egyptian mummy stuns archaeologists in first-of-its-kind discovery

Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” ...
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Archaeologists Just Unearthed An Ancient Egyptian Mummy With A Papyrus Of ‘The Iliad’ Tucked Inside Its Wrapping

Archaeologists uncovered a 1,600-year-old mummy at Egypt's Al-Bahnasa necropolis with a papyrus containing text from Homer's ...

Homer’s “Iliad” Found Stuffed Into Egyptian Mummy’s Wrappings

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

Archaeologists stunned to find copy of Homer’s Iliad inside ancient Egyptian mummy

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