Archaeologists in Egypt found a rare fragment of Homer's "Iliad" atop a Roman-era mummy, the first literary text ever found ...

Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” stuck to its abdomen, in a first-of-its-kind discovery.

A thin sheet of gold, pressed into the shape of a human tongue, sat inside the mouth of a mummy that had not been disturbed ...

Archaeologists have found something unexpected inside a 1,600-year-old Roman-era Egyptian mummy: a fragment of Homer’s Iliad.

A papyrus that contains part of Homer's "Iliad" has been discovered inside the abdomen of a mummy in Egypt. Other mummies at the cemetery had gold tongues.

Found in Egypt, the papyrus confirms that Homer was everywhere in the ancient Mediterranean.

For the deceased of Roman-era Egypt, Greek literature may have offered a cheat code to a more comfortable afterlife.

The excerpt from Homer's epic poem features his catalog of ships, a famous passage listing the Greek forces that sailed to Troy. It may be the first Greek literary text found in the context of mummifi ...

Among the most striking discoveries is the mummy of a man found inside a sarcophagus, described as being "completely covered in layers of gold".

The discovery was made at Oxyrhynchus, an ancient burial site in central Egypt, by a team from the University of Barcelona ...

(Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities/Facebook) Here's something archaeologists don't see every day, or indeed ever: An ancient Egyptian mummy with an excerpt from the classic Greek text the ...