US EditionArchaeologists Found a Piece of Homer’s Iliad on a Scrap of Papyrus—Inside the Chest of a Mummy
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A group of archaeologists has just found a mummy in the necropolis of Al-Bahansa, 200 kilometers from Cairo. The curious thing is that this mummy, instead of carrying the usual papyrus of magic formulas and prayers - that manual of passwords to enter successfully into the underworld - kept, on its belly, a fragment of The Iliad. The chosen text is the famous “Catalogue of the ships”, where it describes the fleet of the aquea forces that gathered…
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der Standard DEIn Oxyrhynchos, researchers found a piece of papyrus from the second book of the Iliads beside gold tongues, burnt bones and gods
Spanish archaeologists have discovered a papyrus containing a copy of Homer's Iliad inside a mummy buried 1,600 years ago during the Roman period in Egypt, The Independent reported. This is the first time that scientists have discovered a Greek literary work associated with mummification. Mummies are more commonly found to contain magical texts containing ritual practices written in Greek.
During the Roman rule in Egypt, papyrus was partly used for mummification. Priests also resorted to today's world-famous poetry.
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