The historical text found inside the mummy was The Iliad, one of the most important works in Western literature.

Archaeologists have found a copy of Homer’s Iliad stuffed inside an ancient Egyptian mummy buried in a 1,600-year-old tomb.

Archaeologists stunned to find copy of Homer’s Iliad inside ancient Egyptian mummy - Papyrus fragment discovered inside mummy ...

Archaeologists excavating in Egypt have unearthed a papyrus fragment bearing verses from Homer's Iliad within the body of an ...

The mummy had been buried during the Roman period in Oxyrhynchus about 1,600 years ago. It is the first time a Greek literary ...