Archaeologists working at the ancient site of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have found something never seen before in a tomb. A 1,600 year old mummy was discovered wrapped with papyrus fragments that contain ...

A rare discovery reveals that a fragment of Homer's Iliad was placed on a 1,600-year-old Egyptian mummy during burial, puzzling archaeologists.

In a bizarre and unheard-of discovery, scientists have found a papyrus containing a passage from Homer's Iliad inside a Roman-era mummy. The nearly 1,600-year-old mummy was kept at the Egyptian site ...

A coincidental archaeological discovery has surfaced just as Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey reaches theatres. The finding is raising questions about how one of history's greatest literary works was ...