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

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

Several other mummies, three golden tongues, and a tongue made of copper were also discovered during excavations.

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

One of the objects found in the tomb was a papyrus with a passage from Homer.

Predating the Aztec Empire, Merton College Library in Oxford has been used by everyone from celebrated 14th-Century ...

Three years into Sudan's brutal war, the country has become a fractured map of collapsing cities, displaced families, and shifting frontlines that show no sign of settling. What began as a power ...

When we think about tomb robbers, we’re usually thinking of the damage they cause. Broken seals, ripped wrappings, scattered bones, smashed containers, and anything “worth something” long gone.

Investors buy gold when the world seems unstable — when people worry about stocks and inflation. A gold-buying frenzy has ...

Three reporters followed supply chains to reveal that the U.S. Mint buys gold that comes from foreign pawn shops and drug ...

The intricate mysteries of ancient Egyptian mummification are being unraveled at Semmelweis University in Hungary, where researchers have employed a state-of-the-art photon-counting CT scanner to ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of a "golden orb" found thousands of feet underwater by researchers from the National ...