In a bizarre and unheard-of discovery, scientists have found a papyrus containing a passage from Homer's Iliad inside a Roman-era mummy. The nearly 1,600-year-old mummy was kept at the Egyptian site ...

A bundle of 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummy remains stored in a Hungarian museum collection spent years carrying the wrong ...

A coincidental archaeological discovery has surfaced just as Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey reaches theatres. The finding is raising questions about how one of history's greatest literary works was ...

Ancient Egyptian princesses were buried with bows, arrows and daggers – and new research shows they weren’t just for ...

For decades, scientists have disputed the meaning of the weapons found in the burial chambers of some ancient Egyptian ...

Analysis of six mummies from ancient Egypt challenges the idea that the bows and daggers buried with some royal women were ...

The mummified daughters of pharaohs who lived thousands of years ago have bone changes that suggest they fought with bows and ...

In October 2000, rumors swirled in the antiquity community about a Persian princess mummy from 600 B.C.E. for sale. Pakistan ...

Alamein, an archaeological site west of Alexandria, unearthed about two dozen of the rare artifacts, including one shaped ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an extraordinary connection between death and literature inside a 1,600-year-old mummy in Egypt. Hidden inside the wrappings of a newly found mummy was a piece of Homer’s ...

A 1,600-year-old mummy discovered in Egypt has revealed something archaeologists had never seen before: a fragment of Homer’s ...