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They opened a mummy and found a 300-year-old book no one can explain

When archaeologists unwrapped an Egyptian mummy, they weren’t expecting jewels, a curse, or a royal secret — they found pages ...

Archaeologists Find Egyptian Mummy Buried With the ‘Iliad’

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

Archaeologists find piece of famous book in 1,600-year-old Egyptian mummy’s guts

It might have been mummy’s favorite bedtime story. Archaeologists found part of Homer’s “The Iliad” stuffed inside a 1,600-year-old mummy’s abdomen — a surprising and first-of-its-kind find, experts ...
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Papyrus Fragment of Homer’s Iliad Found in 1600–Year-old Mummy is First Time Literature is Discovered in a Burial

An Egyptian mummy was found buried with a papyrus fragment of a passage from Homer’s Iliad—the first time literature was seen ...
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Egyptian mummies : a pop-up book / [illustrated by Roger Stewart ; written by Milbry Polk ; paper-engineered by José R. Seminario ; art direction by Jim Deesing]

Unwrap a mummy to see what lies beneath its bandages...lift the layers of a pharaoh's coffin...help an ancient priest remove the organs from a soon-to-be-mummified body! EGYPTIAN MUMMIES : A POPUP ...