Archaeologists in Egypt unearthed a sealed packet of the epic poem resting atop a Roman-era mummy, suggesting they may have been used as a magical ward for the afterlife.

The excerpt from Homer's epic poem features his catalog of ships, a famous passage listing the Greek forces that sailed to Troy. It may be the first Greek literary text found in the context of mummifi ...

Archaeologists in Egypt found a rare fragment of Homer's "Iliad" atop a Roman-era mummy, the first literary text ever found ...

A papyrus that contains part of Homer's "Iliad" has been discovered inside the abdomen of a mummy in Egypt. Other mummies at the cemetery had gold tongues.

For the deceased of Roman-era Egypt, Greek literature may have offered a cheat code to a more comfortable afterlife.

Just a few months before the release of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, archaeologists found an Egyptian Mummy with Homer's ...

Archaeologists have found a papyrus copy of Homer’s Iliad in the gut of an ancient Egyptian mummy, the first time ever that a Greek literary text has been found incorporated into the preservation ...

As the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war holds the country in thrall, Charlotte Higgins reflects on the enduring power of a 3,000-year-old poem The Iliad is the first great book, and the first great ...

Homer’s Iliad is usually thought of as the first work of European literature, and many would say, the greatest. It tells part of the saga of the city of Troy and the war that took place there. In fact ...