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New York Postscience78 days ago
Archaeologists Find Homer's Iliad Papyrus Fragment Inside 1,600-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy
Researchers from the University of Barcelona discovered a Greek papyrus fragment of Homer's 'The Iliad' inside a mummy's abdomen during a Roman-era tomb excavation. The find marks the first recorded instance of a Greek literary text used in mummification. The same dig uncovered g…