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

Egyptian mummies were frequently embalmed using repurposed bits of papyrus with religious texts and other spiritual passages ...

When the Hungarian National Museum Public Collection Center's Semmelweis Museum of Medical History in Budapest was founded in ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a 1,600-year-old Roman-era mummy containing a papyrus fragment from Homer’s Iliad, ...

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

Archaeologists have found a copy of Homer’s Iliad stuffed inside an ancient Egyptian mummy buried in a 1,600-year-old tomb.

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 ...

The discovery was made in the Al Bahnasa area, 190 kilometers from Cairo. “It reflects the richness and diversity of Egyptian ...

The historical text found inside the mummy was The Iliad, one of the most important works in Western literature.

CT scans reveal hidden details inside 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummies, uncovering disease, age, and ancient mummification ...

Archaeologists in Poland are finally solving an over 2,000-year-old mummy mystery. After modern warfare erased vital ...