Internationally acclaimed for her bestselling essay Infinity in a Reed, Vallejo has become one of the leading contemporary ...

An Egyptian mummy was found buried with a papyrus fragment of a passage from Homer’s Iliad—the first time literature was seen ...

Here's something archaeologists don't see every day, or indeed ever: An ancient Egyptian mummy with an excerpt from the ...

Researchers discovered an Iliad fragment in a mummy, marking the first literary papyrus used in embalming and offering new ...

Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced that a Spanish archaeological mission from the University of Barcelona ...

In a historic first, archeologists excavating an ancient Egyptian tomb have found a fragment of Homer's poem The Iliad ...

On a Thursday afternoon, Kevin Acila, 30, sat with her children on a papyrus mat spread across the compound outside her ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a 1,600-year-old mummy. Tucked within its abdomen was a well-known book -- a ...

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 ...

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

A charred papyrus, long considered impossible to read without destroying it, has finally revealed its contents. Thanks to ...