Medical Scans Reveal Hidden Secrets Inside Ancient Egyptian Mummies

When the Hungarian National Museum Public Collection Center's Semmelweis Museum of Medical History in Budapest was founded in ...

Scientists Unlock Hidden Secrets of 2,300-Year-Old Mummies Using Cutting-Edge CT Scanner

High-tech imaging uncovered new insights into ancient mummies’ health and mummification methods. Egyptian mummy remains are ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Archaeologists Unearth a Papyrus Fragment From the ‘Iliad’ Tucked Inside the Wrappings of a 1,600-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy

The excerpt from Homer's epic poem features the catalog of ships, a famous passage listing the Greek forces that sailed to ...

Homer and the mummy: Rare copy of the Iliad poem found inside ancient Egyptian tomb

Egyptian team have uncovered a fragment of Homer’s Iliad inside a mummy at Oxyrhynchus, revealing how ancient texts were ...
Newser on MSN

Iliad excerpt found inside ancient Egyptian mummy

The idea that a good book stays with you has taken on a whole new meaning in Egypt. Archaeologists excavating a Roman-era ...

CT scans reveal age, authenticity of child mummy housed in Polish museum for over a century - study

We are still working on the mummy," said Professor Agata Kubala in a statement, as an "X-ray revealed the presence of an ...

Archaeologists find copy of Homer’s Iliad in ancient Egyptian mummy

Archaeologists stunned to find copy of Homer’s Iliad inside ancient Egyptian mummy - Papyrus fragment discovered inside mummy ...
ZME Science

Archaeologists Found a Copy of the Iliad Stuffed Inside an Ancient Egyptian Mummy

Many centuries later, Roman-era embalmers in the Egyptian desert took those same verses and tucked them inside the gut of a ...
Ancient Origins

Ancient Egyptian Mummies Yield New Secrets Under Advanced CT Scans

The intricate mysteries of ancient Egyptian mummification are being unraveled at Semmelweis University in Hungary, where researchers have employed a state-of-the-art photon-counting CT scanner to ...

Archaeological mission in Oxyrhynchus has found Homer's 'Iliad' inside a Roman-era mummy

The Oxyrhynchus Archaeological Mission, run by the Institute of Ancient Near East Studies (IPOA) at the University of ...
Earth.com

Scientists use cutting-edge CT scanner to capture the most detailed images of Egyptian mummies ever seen

CT scans reveal hidden details inside 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummies, uncovering disease, age, and ancient mummification ...
ABC7 San Francisco

Mummy parade planned through streets of Cairo as Egypt moves bodies of ancient royal pharaohs

CAIRO, Egypt -- Ancient mummies of Egypt's royal pharaohs will emerge from their resting places this weekend and parade through the streets of Cairo in search of a new home. What sounds like the plot ...