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A 1,600-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy Was Carrying Homer’s Iliad in Its Abdomen, and Archaeologists Have No Idea Why
Somewhere beneath the sands of central Egypt, in a tomb that had survived centuries of looting, a team of archaeologists was working through a necropolis they had studied for decades. It was late 2025, and excavations at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus had already produced gilded mummies, geometric burial patterns, and gold tongues placed inside…