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Someone put the dullest part of The Iliad inside a mummy

Ruben Bolling
Apr 27, 2026
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Mummy at the Cairo Museum in Cairo, Egypt. RPBaiao: Shutterstock.com

The excavation of a Roman-era cemetery in Egypt has revealed a 1600-year-old mummy that had been entombed with a papyrus containing an fragment from Homer’s epic The Iliad at its abdomen. Owen Jarus’s article in New Scientist:

Written on papyrus in Greek, the text records part of Book 2 …

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