Archaeologists had previously uncovered Greek papyri in mummies, but this discovery marks the first time a literary text has ...

The excerpt from Homer's epic poem features his catalog of ships, a famous passage listing the Greek forces that sailed to ...

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

It might have been mummy’s favorite bedtime story. Archaeologists found part of Homer’s “The Iliad” stuffed inside a ...

Egyptian mummies were frequently embalmed using repurposed bits of papyrus with religious texts and other spiritual passages ...

Many centuries later, Roman-era embalmers in the Egyptian desert took those same verses and tucked them inside the gut of a ...

The discovery is a major first for ancient Egyptian scientists.

High-tech imaging uncovered new insights into ancient mummies’ health and mummification methods. Egyptian mummy remains are ...

Archaeologists in Poland have made a remarkable discovery while examining a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy. During the first-ever comprehensive scientific investigation of the ancient remains, ...

Radiocarbon analysis of some specimens places them between 401 and 259 BCE, making them more than 2,300 years old.

Archaeologists have found a papyrus copy of Homer’s Iliad in the gut of an ancient Egyptian mummy, the first time ever that a ...