>"A papyrus fragment containing a passage from Homer's "Iliad" was discovered incorporated into the mummification process of a Roman-era mummy in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, dating to about 1,600 years ago. This is the first documented instance of a Greek literary text, rather than magical or ritual content, being deliberately included in a funerary context."
A newly deciphered Hittite tablet offers potential connections between Bronze Age Anatolia and the epic tradition of Homer’s Iliad, including references to figures and places associated with the Trojan War and a Luwian poetic fragment echoing the Iliad's opening.
