"The real novelty is finding a literary papyrus in a funerary context." ...

Archaeologists from the University of Barcelona pulled a papyrus fragment of Homer’s Iliad from the wrappings of a 1,600-year ...

With Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” set to bring Homer’s ancient epic back to the big screen this month, readers can revisit the source material in a deluxe hardbound edition that bundles both ...

Archaeologists working at the ancient site of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have found something never seen before in a tomb. A 1,600 ...

Who wrote the Odyssey? Homer, obviously: that is what we’ve been told since the late 6th century BCE, when ancient Greeks ...

Geomorphology of the area surrounding Troy in the later phases of the Late Bronze Age. Bottom: Volunteer marine soldiers in ...

Homer’s The Iliad is one of the foundational stories of European civilisation. The Iliad is a long poem – an epic – thought to have first been put down in writing in the eighth century BC, though the ...

Arguments over Homeric translation are nothing new. Virtually since the Renaissance, there has been a clear division among translators between modernists and Hellenizers. The first, in essence, follow ...

Homer’s Iliad is so canonical in world literature that even without having read the epic, most people are familiar with the broad scenario of the Trojan war, triggered by the Trojan prince Paris’s ...

The earliest surviving fragments of the epic poem—the subject of Christopher Nolan's latest Hollywood blockbuster—date back ...

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A 1,600-year-old mummy discovered in Egypt has revealed something archaeologists had never seen before: a fragment of Homer’s ...