A thin sheet of gold, pressed into the shape of a human tongue, sat inside the mouth of a mummy that had not been disturbed ...

Thin plates of gold, each cut into the shape of a human tongue, were still resting inside the mouths of mummified remains ...

Archaeologists in Egypt found a rare fragment of Homer's "Iliad" atop a Roman-era mummy, the first literary text ever found ...

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.

Researchers from the school uncovered a fragment of Homer’s “Iliad” while excavating a Roman-era tomb in an Egyptian town.

Archaeologists in Egypt unearthed a sealed packet of the epic poem resting atop a Roman-era mummy, suggesting they may have ...

A papyrus that contains part of Homer's "Iliad" has been discovered inside the abdomen of a mummy in Egypt. Other mummies at the cemetery had gold tongues.

Archaeologists have found something unexpected inside a 1,600-year-old Roman-era Egyptian mummy: a fragment of Homer’s Iliad.

For the deceased of Roman-era Egypt, Greek literature may have offered a cheat code to a more comfortable afterlife.

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A new, first-of-its-kind analysis of the scents of nine mummies detected woody, spicy, herbal and rancid notes, among other odors Sarah Everts | Author, The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of ...