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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 ...

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 ...
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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 ...

Egyptian mummy discovered stuffed with excerpt from ‘The Iliad’

Egyptian mummies were frequently embalmed using repurposed bits of papyrus with religious texts and other spiritual passages ...
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Greek epic fragment found inside Egyptian mummy

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a fragment from Homer’s Iliad inside the chest cavity of a 1,600-year-old mummy at Al-Bahnasa, ancient Oxyrhynchus. The section, known as the Catalog of Ships, ...
Greek Reporter

Hector and Andromache: The Most Moving Scene in Homer’s Iliad

Hector and Andromache share one of the most tragic stories in Homer’s Iliad. Credit: Francesco Hayez / Public domain / ...
Greek Reporter

Homer’s Iliad: The Story of the Trojan War

Homer's Iliad tells the saga of the city of Troy and the mythical Trojan war that took place between the Greeks and the ...

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.