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A Papyrus from Homer's 'Iliad' Found in an Ancient Mummy in Egypt

Ignasi-Xavier Adiego/University of BarcelonaThe newly discovered papyrus contains a text from Homer's epic poem Iliad about the Trojan War. In late 2025, scholars from the Oxyrhynchus Archaeological Mission discovered a series of mummies in an ancie…