Archaeologists Find Pages from Homer’s Iliad in an Ancient Egyptian Mummy Burial

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A Roman-era tomb in Al Bahnasa, Egypt, contained a mummy burial with papyrus fragments from Homer’s Iliad, including lines from Book 2’s “catalogue of ships.” The find adds to evidence that Greek texts circulated in Egypt long after the Hellenistic period and may have carried cultural or symbolic significance in burial contexts. [openculture.com]

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