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” stuck to its abdomen, in a first-of-its-kind discovery. While other mummies in the area have been found with sealed packages containing papyri with what appear to be rituali...

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