Archaeologists uncovered a 1,600-year-old mummy at Egypt's Al-Bahnasa necropolis with a papyrus containing text from Homer's ...

The mummy had been buried during the Roman period in Oxyrhynchus about 1,600 years ago. It is the first time a Greek literary ...

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

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 ...

Radiographic imaging of royal Egyptian mummies : previous and current studies -- The story of the royal caches -- The discovery of the mummy of Queen Hatshepsut, and examination of the mummies of her ...

It's the epic poem that's regarded as the cornerstone of Western literature - and it turns out Homer's Iliad was a must-read ...