Archaeologists are stunned after discovering a copy of Homer's Iliad on an Egyptian mummy, revealing unexpected ancient ...

Archaeologists toiling on two separate sites in Egypt have stumbled on a pair of remarkable finds of historic proportions — ...

Archaeologists in Egypt unearthed a sealed packet of the epic poem resting atop a Roman-era mummy, suggesting they may have been used as a magical ward for the afterlife. Papyri were plentiful in the ...

Scientists have made a rare discovery inside a rare discovery. Researchers with the Warsaw Mummy Project have been studying ancient Egyptian remains since 2015 and recently used cutting-edge computer ...

Among the most striking discoveries is the mummy of a man found inside a sarcophagus, described as being "completely covered in layers of gold".

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 ...

Archaeologists have found something unexpected inside a 1,600-year-old Roman-era Egyptian mummy: a fragment of Homer’s Iliad. It wasn’t placed beside the body, but inside the mummy’s abdomen. But the ...

Ancient Egypt produced an enormous number of mummies over more than 3,000 years, yet only a tiny fraction remain today. One ...

Ancient Greece and Egypt shaped each other through trade, religion, mythology, art, and politics long before Alexander and ...

After Napoleon’s Egypt campaign, the European bourgeoisie became fascinated by pyramids, hieroglyphs and mummies. The latter were shipped to Europe by the thousands, despite laws prohibiting the trade ...