The excerpt from Homer's epic poem features his catalog of ships, a famous passage listing the Greek forces that sailed to ...
Many centuries later, Roman-era embalmers in the Egyptian desert took those same verses and tucked them inside the gut of a ...
A charred papyrus, long considered impossible to read without destroying it, has finally revealed its contents. Thanks to ...
A papyrus that contains part of Homer's "Iliad" has been discovered inside the abdomen of a mummy in Egypt. Other mummies at ...
The Oxyrhynchus Archaeological Mission, run by the Institute of Ancient Near East Studies (IPOA) at the University of ...
Unlike earlier writing materials like clay tablets, papyrus paper was lightweight, flexible, and easy to store. It ...
First-year students create interactive 3D and 2D replicas of historical objects to be presented during Imagine RIT.
Archaeologists have found a copy of Homer’s Iliad stuffed inside an ancient Egyptian mummy buried in a 1,600-year-old tomb.