A Spanish-Egyptian team have uncovered a fragment of Homer’s Iliad inside a mummy at Oxyrhynchus, revealing how ancient texts were reused in burial practices and shedding light on the spread of Greek literature in Roman Egypt.
Homer and the mummy: Rare copy of the Iliad poem found inside ancient Egyptian tomb
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