Egyptian mummy unearthed with literary text on abdomen in first ever find

Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Archaeologists Unearth a Papyrus Fragment From the ‘Iliad’ Tucked Inside the Wrappings of a 1,600-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy

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

Homer’s “Iliad” Found Stuffed Into Egyptian Mummy’s Wrappings

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

Archaeologists find piece of famous book in 1,600-year-old Egyptian mummy’s guts

It might have been mummy’s favorite bedtime story. Archaeologists found part of Homer’s “The Iliad” stuffed inside a ...
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The Mysterious Egyptian Mummy No One Dares To Open—But Tech Just Revealed Some Of Its Secrets

Uncovering mummies is a sure way to prompt Ancient Egyptian curses that might be true, which explains why the Bashiri mummy has remained undisturbed for more than two millennia. This mysterious ...

CT scans reveal age, authenticity of child mummy housed in Polish museum for over a century - study

We are still working on the mummy," said Professor Agata Kubala in a statement, as an "X-ray revealed the presence of an ...
Ancient Origins

Ancient Egyptian Mummies Yield New Secrets Under Advanced CT Scans

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 ...
New York Post

Egyptian mummy discovered with bubonic plague rewrites history of the notorious Black Death

Scientists discovered an over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague, marking the first case of the disease outside Eurasia. De Agostini via Getty Images Scientists have ...