Egypt
Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced that a Spanish archaeological mission from the University of Barcelona along with the Institute of the Ancient Near East working at the ancient site of Oxyrhynchus (modern-day Al Bahnasa in Al Minya governorate) have uncovered, on 18 April, a mummy with a fragment of a literary text from Homer’s “The Iliad” placed on his abdomen. The Iliad, an ancient Greek epic poem composed around the late 8th or early 7th century BC and…
