What Archaeologists Found Hidden Inside a Roman-Era Mummy in Egypt

A Roman-era mummy in Egypt was just found with part of Homer’s Iliad tucked inside its abdomen. Nobody had ever found anything like it before—and the archaeologists who discovered it are only beginning to understand what they’re dealing with. Written on papyrus in Greek, the text records part of Book 2 of the Iliad, which […] The post What Archaeologists Found Hidden Inside a Roman-Era Mummy in Egypt appeared first on VICE .

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