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Ancient Egyptian mummy found wrapped in something never seen before

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

First-of-Its-Kind Discovery: Homer’s Iliad Found Embedded in a 1,600-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy

Researchers discovered an Iliad fragment in a mummy, marking the first literary papyrus used in embalming and offering new ...
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Someone put the dullest part of the Iliad inside a mummy

The excavation of a Roman-era cemetery in Egypt has revealed a 1600-year-old mummy that had been entombed with a papyrus ...
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Papyrus Fragment of Homer’s Iliad Found in 1600–Year-old Mummy is First Time Literature is Discovered in a Burial

An Egyptian mummy was found buried with a papyrus fragment of a passage from Homer’s Iliad—the first time literature was seen ...