🚨HOMER ALERT 🚨 a copy of a section from The Iliad has been identified as the text in a papyrus placed on the abdomen of a mummified person, excavated last year, as part of the embalming ritual. Pride of place, not stuffed inside a cavity like previously found texts, and the first piece of Literature found on a mummy and in a funerary context.
And guess which bit it is?
THE CATALOGUE OF SHIPS 😂😂😂😂
(Well, we all knew those pages had to be *someone’s* favourite bit 😉)
BRB, off to shoehorn this into a lesson…
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Papyrus fragment discovered inside mummy buried in Roman-era tomb around 1,600 years ago

















