Here's something archaeologists don't see every day, or indeed ever: An ancient Egyptian mummy with an excerpt from the classic Greek text the Iliad plastered to its abdomen. That's a sentence that ...

A spectacular new institution and a project to sequence the genomes of mummies are fuelling debate over the future of ...

Ancient Egypt may have produced more than 70 million mummies, yet relatively few survive today. Kayleigh traces how a ...

Archaeologists have found something unexpected inside a 1,600-year-old Roman-era Egyptian mummy: a fragment of Homer's Iliad. It wasn't placed beside the body, but inside the mummy's abdomen. But the ...

A rare discovery reveals that a fragment of Homer's Iliad was placed on a 1,600-year-old Egyptian mummy during burial, puzzling archaeologists.

Analysis of six mummies from ancient Egypt challenges the idea that the bows and daggers buried with some royal women were ...

The lives of princesses in ancient Egypt are often described as luxurious and sheltered, surrounded by servants in sprawling ...

In the ancient Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus, archaeologists recently discovered a 1,600-year-old tomb with several mummies inside. Some of them were decorated with gold leaf or geometric ...

Most people probably aren’t itching to take a whiff of the mummified remains of the long dead. But doing so can unlock new pieces of the past, according to a new study. “Many people have sniffed ...

After Napoleon’s Egypt campaign, the European bourgeoisie became fascinated by pyramids, hieroglyphs and mummies. The latter were shipped to Europe by the thousands, despite laws prohibiting the trade ...

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