Archaeologists discover a 1,600-year-old Roman-era mummy in Egypt containing an unprecedented papyrus fragment! Swipe to see →
On July 19, 2026, archaeologists and historians celebrated one of the most extraordinary discoveries in recent Egyptian archaeology withi...
The discovery took place in a specific sector of the Upper Necropolis of Oxyrhynchus, which is today identified as the modern city of El-...
A detailed philological study of the papyrus revealed that the lines written in Greek characters corresponded to Book II of Homer's Iliad...
To fully understand the relevance of this discovery, it is helpful to compare it with other fundamental papyrus finds in Egyptian history...
The presence of Homer in an Egyptian burial ritual raises profound questions about the social identity of the deceased. Specialists sugge...
The coordination of the mission in Oxyrhynchus is an international operation of high technical complexity that brings together scholars a...
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