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

Researchers from the school uncovered a fragment of Homer’s “Iliad” while excavating a Roman-era tomb in an Egyptian town.

Archaeologists in Egypt unearthed a sealed packet of the epic poem resting atop a Roman-era mummy, suggesting they may have ...

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 ...

A limestone shard with an ink inscription of Homer’s Iliad found in the Monastery of Epiphanius at Thebes, now housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (image via The Met) Archaeologists excavating at ...

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.

Just a few months before the release of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, archaeologists found an Egyptian Mummy with Homer's ...