Researchers discovered an Iliad fragment in a mummy, marking the first literary papyrus used in embalming and offering new ...

Greek epic needs a hero, and it has one in Stephen Spinella. Granted, when Homer wrote "The Iliad" around 800 B.C., he didn’t have Spinella in mind. However, had it not been for the heroic rescue ...

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

The excavation of a Roman-era cemetery in Egypt has revealed a 1600-year-old mummy that had been entombed with a papyrus ...

The unnamed poet in Lantern Theatre’s stunning production of the audacious “An Iliad” gives us, in awe and befuddlement, his eyewitness account of the Greeks’ siege of Troy toward the end of the ...

Gregory Elder is a professor emeritus of history and humanities at Moreno Valley College and a Roman Catholic priest. (Courtesy Photo) With the hideous thunder of war breaking out in Europe once again ...