Archaeologists from the University of Barcelona have discovered a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy at Oxyrhynchus, an ancient burial site in central Egypt. The mummy was found to contain an ancient Greek war poem.

An Egyptian-Spanish archaeological mission in Al-Bahnasa (ancient Oxyrhynchus) has discovered a Roman-era tomb containing mummies with golden tongues and fragments of lost Homeric verses.

Archaeologists in the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, have made a fascinating discovery: a 1600-year-old mummy with a fragment of Homer's Iliad attached to its abdomen.

Archaeologists from the University of Barcelona have unearthed a mummy containing a papyrus fragment of Homer's Iliad in three limestone burial chambers in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt.

An extraordinary archaeological discovery has been made in Egypt's Oxyrhynchus area, where researchers identified a papyrus fragment containing verses from Homer's 'Iliad' found within an ancient Egyp