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Fragments of Homer's Iliad Discovered Inside Ancient Egyptian-Roman Mummy

Archaeologists in Oxyrhynchos have made a remarkable discovery, finding fragments of Homer's Iliad, specifically from its second book, inside the stomach of an Egyptian-Roman mummy, alongside other artifacts like gold tongues and deity figures.

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