Homer and the mummy: Rare copy of the Iliad poem found inside ancient Egyptian tomb

Egyptian team have uncovered a fragment of Homer’s Iliad inside a mummy at Oxyrhynchus, revealing how ancient texts were ...
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Scientists discover a fragment of Homer's 'Iliad' inside a Roman-era mummy

It's the epic poem that's regarded as the cornerstone of Western literature - and it turns out Homer's Iliad was a must-read ...
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Archaeologists Just Unearthed An Ancient Egyptian Mummy With A Papyrus Of ‘The Iliad’ Tucked Inside Its Wrapping

Archaeologists uncovered a 1,600-year-old mummy at Egypt's Al-Bahnasa necropolis with a papyrus containing text from Homer's ...
Greek Reporter

Homer’s Greek Was Never a Spoken Language, Yet It Lives on in Modern Greek

Homer's language, used in his epic poems, which laid the foundations of Western literature, was never spoken but echoes in ...
Greek Reporter

Unraveling the Legend: Homer’s Tomb on Greece’s Ios

Legend has it that the island of Ios, Greece was where Homer took his last breath, and he now he lies in his tomb on a hill at Plakoto.