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Why was a fragment of Homer's Iliad inside an Egyptian mummy
Archaeologists in Egypt were amazed to find a fragment of Homer's epic poem the Iliad stuffed inside a 1,600 year-old mummy. The discovery prompted questions as to how and why the papyrus sheet written in ancient Greek came to be there.
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