mummies

The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem attributed to Homer, dating back to a literary tradition that began some 2,700 years ago. A fragment of it has now been identified on a papyrus placed on an Egyptian mummy from the Roman period. Credit: Professor Ignasi-Xavier Adiego.

Papyrus of the Iliad discovered in a 1,600-year-old Egyptian mummy

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A University of Barcelona expedition has identified a fragment of Homer's "Catalogue of Ships" inside a Roman-era mummy in Oxyrhynchus. This is the first known case of a Greek literary text in the context of embalming.
One of the mummies in the Vác collection courtesy of Dr. Ildiko Pap, Department of Anthropology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest.

Researchers from Tel Aviv University have located a genetic change that increases the risk of colon cancer in a 300-year-old mummy

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