Roman-era Egyptian mummy carries Iliad text on abdomen, first of its kind
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Archaeologists in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, uncovered a 1,600-year-old mummy with a fragment of Homer’s Iliad attached to its abdomen—the first known instance of a literary text in this funerary context; the papyrus is fragmentary and its purpose remains unclear, and researchers have not yet used high-tech imaging to read it.
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