A papyrus that contains part of Homer's "Iliad" has been discovered inside the abdomen of a mummy in Egypt. Other mummies at ...

When the Hungarian National Museum Public Collection Center's Semmelweis Museum of Medical History in Budapest was founded in ...

The excerpt from Homer's epic poem features his catalog of ships, a famous passage listing the Greek forces that sailed to ...

The intricate mysteries of ancient Egyptian mummification are being unraveled at Semmelweis University in Hungary, where researchers have employed a state-of-the-art photon-counting CT scanner to ...

The idea that a good book stays with you has taken on a whole new meaning in Egypt. Archaeologists excavating a Roman-era ...

During the excavations of the ancient Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus, archaeologists found a mummy inside which a papyrus was ...

SCIENTISTS have revealed limbs of an ancient Egyptian mummy in horrifying detail like you’ve never seen before.

Archaeologists in Poland have made a remarkable discovery while examining a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy. During the first-ever comprehensive scientific investigation of the ancient remains, ...

The historical text found inside the mummy was The Iliad, one of the most important works in Western literature.

Mummification was a sacred ritual of the ancient Egyptians, who called their mummified dead “noble ones.” But when mummies started showing up as supernatural archfiends in Victorian horror novels and ...

Archaeologists at Egypt’s ancient Oxyrhynchus site have discovered a 1,600-year-old Roman-era mummy containing a papyrus fragment from Homer’s Iliad, marking the first known instance of a Greek ...

CAIRO, Egypt -- Ancient mummies of Egypt's royal pharaohs will emerge from their resting places this weekend and parade through the streets of Cairo in search of a new home. What sounds like the plot ...