#Oxyrhynchus

Last December, a remarkable discovery in Egypt jogged my memory on two counts. A papyrus found in the abdomen of a 1600 year old mummy at...

Instead of magical texts, part of Homer's epic helped preserve the 1,600-year-old remains.

The excerpt from Homer's epic poem features his catalog of ships, a famous passage listing the Greek forces that sailed to Troy. It may be the first Greek literary text found in the context of mummification