Eighteenth-century workers in Herculaneum unearthed a unique Roman library preserved by the 79 CE Vesuvius eruption. These ...

The discovery was made at Oxyrhynchus, an ancient burial site in central Egypt, by a team from the University of Barcelona ...

Archaeologists in Egypt unearthed a sealed packet of the epic poem resting atop a Roman-era mummy, suggesting they may have ...

For the deceased of Roman-era Egypt, Greek literature may have offered a cheat code to a more comfortable afterlife.

Found in Egypt, the papyrus confirms that Homer was everywhere in the ancient Mediterranean.

DR Alex George has revealed he almost took his own life two years ago, after his brother’s tragic suicide. The Love Island ...

An Egyptian mummy was found buried with a papyrus fragment of a passage from Homer’s Iliad—the first time literature was seen ...

Here's something archaeologists don't see every day, or indeed ever: An ancient Egyptian mummy with an excerpt from the ...

Researchers discovered an Iliad fragment in a mummy, marking the first literary papyrus used in embalming and offering new ...

In a historic first, archeologists excavating an ancient Egyptian tomb have found a fragment of Homer's poem The Iliad ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a 1,600-year-old mummy. Tucked within its abdomen was a well-known book -- a ...