Archaeologists from the University of Barcelona pulled a papyrus fragment containing lines from Homer’s Iliad out of a Roman-era mummy at Oxyrhynchus, the ancient Egyptian site also known as ...

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 ...

A joint Egyptian and Spanish archaeological team working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus has recovered golden tongue amulets and golden nails from mummies buried at the Al-Bahnasa site in Egypt’s ...

A tomb in Egypt’s Theban Necropolis reveals a surprisingly organized story of burial, reuse, and changing beliefs spanning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Colossal statue of Amenemhat II at the Pergammon Museum in Berlin, and a khopesh, or ancient Egyptian sword, pictured at the ...

Zahi Hawass continues the story of the discovery and identification of Queen Hatshepsut’s mummy thousands of years after her death ...

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. Papyri were plentiful in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists toiling on two separate sites in Egypt have stumbled on a pair of remarkable finds of historic proportions — ...

Scientists at the world’s only mummy research institute are combing crypts and caverns for ancient remains—and using new tools to gather fresh insight about how our ancestors once lived. Unlike their ...