Ötzi the Iceman, Europe’s most famous mummy, is crawling with microbes, some long dead, some still eking out a living after ...

Scientists found living yeast in Ötzi the Iceman's remains and used it to bake sourdough bread more than 5,300 years after ...

In 1991, hikers exploring the Tyrolean Alps between Italy and Austria discovered the mummified remains of a 5,300-year-old ...

More than 5,300 years ago, Oetzi the Iceman was strolling through the Alps on the border of Austria and Italy when he was ...

An Iliad fragment discovered inside an Egyptian mummy shows how Homer’s influence extended across Roman culture, from ...

Archaeologists were stunned after recently discovering one of the greatest works of Western literature placed on top of a mummy in Egypt. The one-of-a-kind discovery was announced by the University of ...

Archaeologists were stunned after recently discovering one of the greatest works of Western literature placed on top of a mummy in Egypt. The one-of-a-kind discovery was announced by the University of ...

For the deceased of Roman-era Egypt, Greek literature may have offered a cheat code to a more comfortable afterlife. By Franz Lidz Archaeologists working in Egypt have discovered a remarkable ...

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 ...

Archaeologists working in Egypt have discovered a remarkable combination of Homeric epic and Egyptian ritual: a 2,000-year-old mummy with a papyrus fragment of the "Iliad" sealed in a clay packet ...

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 ...