An extraordinary archaeological discovery has been made in Egypt's Oxyrhynchus area, where researchers identified a papyrus fragment containing verses from Homer's 'Iliad' found within an ancient Egyp

An Egyptian-Spanish archaeological mission in Al-Bahnasa (ancient Oxyrhynchus) has discovered a Roman-era tomb containing mummies with golden tongues and fragments of lost Homeric verses.

Archaeologists from the University of Barcelona have unearthed a mummy containing a papyrus fragment of Homer's Iliad in three limestone burial chambers in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt.