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Discovery of a Homeric Fragment Inside a Roman-Era Egyptian Mummy

📰 Original title: Why was an Egyptian mummy stuffed with a fragment of Homer’s Iliad?

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Discovery of a Homeric Fragment Inside a Roman-Era Egyptian Mummy

Archaeologists have uncovered a 1,600-year-old Roman-era Egyptian mummy containing an unexpected item: a fragment of Homer’s Iliad placed inside the abdomen. Initially, some reports suggested that the…

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SPAAM-community 4d ago

What #pathogens did people carry before European contact? Ancient DNA 🧬from a #Bolivian #mummy 🪦 reveals #Streptococcus pyogenes 🦠, pushing its presence in the Americas back centuries!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-71603-9
#MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #ancientgenomics #pathogengenomics #virulence

An ancient genome of Streptococcus pyogenes from a pre-Columbian Bolivian mummy - Nature Communications

Streptococcus pyogenes is a human pathogen responsible for a range of diseases. Here, the authors reconstruct an ancient S. pyogenes genome from a pre-Columbian Bolivian mummy, supporting that the pathogen circulated in the Americas prior to the European contact.

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May 7

Brendan Fraser quips about getting his ‘57-year-old gear’ in shape for new ‘Mummy’ film #BrendanFraser #Mummy #socialnewsxyz

https://www.socialnews.xyz/2026/05/07/brendan-fraser-quips-about-getting-his-57-year-old-gear-in-shape-for-new-mummy-film/

Brendan Fraser quips about getting his ‘57-year-old gear’ in shape for new ‘Mummy’ film - Social News XYZ

Mumbai, May 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) Hollywood star Brendan Fraser has confirmed that another ‘Mummy’ film is finally in the works, saying he is doing his best to get his “57-year-old gear” back in shape for the... - Social News XYZ

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Ssentamu Samson May 6

Together we can join me in this journey #Mummy on mastodon or #Father on Mastodon as Bible help one another ♥️ 🙏
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Regina Kammer Apr 29

A Spanish-Egyptian archaeological team has uncovered a fragment of Homer’s Iliad inside a mummy at Oxyrhynchus, revealing how ancient texts were reused in burial practices and shedding light on the spread of Greek literature in Roman Egypt.
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/04/21/homer-and-the-mummy-rare-copy-of-the-iliad-poem-found-inside-ancient-egyptian-tomb
#Archaeology #RomanEgypt #Iliad #Mummy

Spanish archaeologists find Homer's Iliad poem in Egyptian tomb

A Spanish-Egyptian team have uncovered a fragment of Homer’s Iliad inside a mummy at Oxyrhynchus, revealing how ancient texts were reused in burial practices and shedding light on the spread of Greek literature in Roman Egypt.

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PugJesus Apr 28

Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand (famous for his assassination kicking off WW1) posing as a mummy, Cairo, Egypt, 1896

https://piefed.social/c/historyphotos/p/2019267/austro-hungarian-archduke-franz-ferdinand-famous-for-his-assassination-kicking-off-ww1

neat_news Apr 27

Archaeologists have discovered that a Roman-era mummy had a copy of verses of Homer's Iliad inside its abdomen. See http://www.neat-news.com/3579.php. #mummy #Iliad