Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” stuck to its abdomen, in a first-of-its-kind discovery.
For the deceased of Roman-era Egypt, Greek literature may have offered a cheat code to a more comfortable afterlife.
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