The excavation of a Roman-era cemetery in Egypt has revealed a 1600-year-old mummy that had been entombed with a papyrus containing an fragment from Homer's epic The Iliad at its abdomen. Owen Jarus's article in New Scientist:
Written on papyrus in Greek, the text records part of Book 2 of the "Iliad," which details the legendary Trojan War.
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