Archaeologists in Egypt unearthed a sealed packet of the epic poem resting atop a Roman-era mummy, suggesting they may have been used as a magical ward for the afterlife.

The excerpt from Homer's epic poem features his catalog of ships, a famous passage listing the Greek forces that sailed to Troy. It may be the first Greek literary text found in the context of mummifi ...

Archaeologists in Egypt found a rare fragment of Homer's "Iliad" atop a Roman-era mummy, the first literary text ever found ...

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

Archaeologists have found something unexpected inside a 1,600-year-old Roman-era Egyptian mummy: a fragment of Homer’s Iliad. It wasn’t placed beside the body, but inside the mummy’s abdomen. But the ...

Erasmus quoted the Iliad in a time of widening war: Men get their fill of sleep and love, of beautiful singing and carefree dance, but they never get enough of war. Men get their fill of sleep and ...

For the deceased of Roman-era Egypt, Greek literature may have offered a cheat code to a more comfortable afterlife.

In a critically acclaimed new translation of The Iliad, CU Boulder classics Professor Laurialan Reitzammer sees the enduring relevance of Homer So, it’s no little feat that The Iliad and The ...

"The rage of Achilles--sing it now, goddess, sing through me." That's the first line of Homer's "The Iliad" in the new translation by Stephen Mitchell, a poet and one of the preeminent translators and ...