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

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.

(Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities/Facebook) Here's something archaeologists don't see every day, or indeed ever: ...

Archaeologists have found something unexpected inside a 1,600-year-old Roman-era Egyptian mummy: a fragment of Homer's Iliad. It wasn't placed beside the body, but inside the mummy's abdomen. But the ...

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 ...

Archaeologists had previously uncovered Greek papyri in mummies, but this discovery marks the first time a literary text has been found incorporated into the mummification process.

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 ...

Archaeologists discovers 13 wooden coffins in the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara.

A Roman‑era tomb in Egypt’s Minya Governorate has yielded bizarrely ordained mummies, rare papyri, and artifacts that ...