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Archaeologists Found a Copy of the Iliad Stuffed Inside an Ancient Egyptian Mummy

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

Boom in cremation hides surprising truths about what Americans really want when they die

A new study suggests that the decades-long march toward cremation may not last forever – particularly if Gen Z’s preferences ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Archaeologists Unearth a Papyrus Fragment From the ‘Iliad’ Tucked Inside the Wrappings of a 1,600-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy

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

Archaeological Mission Unearthed Fragments of Historical Text From Inside a Roman-Era Mummy

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

Archaeological mission in Oxyrhynchus has found Homer's 'Iliad' inside a Roman-era mummy

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

Inside ‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’: False Rumors, Real Grief, and the Scariest Monster of His Career

Writer/director Lee Cronin talks his fiendish new film for Warner Bros. Plus, James Wan, Catholic guilt, and more with ...
Indian Defence Review on MSN

Spanish Archaeologists Discover a 1,600-Year-Old Roman-Era Mummy in Egypt with a Fragment of Homer’s Iliad Intact

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

The University of Barcelona ’s archaeological mission in Oxyrhynchus has found Homer’s ‘Iliad’ inside a Roman-era mummy

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

Making More Room for the Living Among the Dead

The dead sure know how to live — some of them, anyway. Since its founding in 1838, Green-Wood Cemetery’s permanent residents ...
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First-ever Iliad papyrus found inside Egyptian mummy

Archaeologists at Egypt’s ancient Oxyrhynchus site have discovered a 1,600-year-old Roman-era mummy containing a papyrus fragment from Homer’s Iliad, marking the first known instance of a Greek ...

Archaeologists find copy of Homer’s Iliad in ancient Egyptian mummy

Archaeologists stunned to find copy of Homer’s Iliad inside ancient Egyptian mummy - Papyrus fragment discovered inside mummy ...