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Archaeologists have found a copy of Homer’s Iliad stuffed inside an ancient Egyptian mummy buried in a 1,600-year-old tomb.
The historical text found inside the mummy was The Iliad, one of the most important works in Western literature.
The discovery is a major first for ancient Egyptian scientists.
Archaeologists have found a papyrus copy of Homer's Iliad in the gut of an ancient Egyptian mummy, the first time ever that a ...
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