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SCIENCEMay 22 · 12:00 UTCFOX NEWS

Experts stunned after uncovering Homer's 'Iliad' on Egyptian mummy in unprecedented find

Archaeologists from the University of Barcelona discovered a fragment of Homer's "Iliad" placed on a Roman-era mummy in Egypt, marking the first time a Greek literary text has been found deliberately incorporated into the mummification process. The papyrus fragment, dating back roughly 1,600 years, comes from Book II of the epic poem and was uncovered in the Al Bahnasa necropolis, once part of ancient Oxyrhynchus.

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