Archaeologists find piece of famous book in 1,600-year-old Egyptian mummy’s guts

It might have been mummy’s favorite bedtime story. Archaeologists found part of Homer’s “The Iliad” stuffed inside a ...
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They Opened a Mummy and Found a 300-Year-Old Book No One Can Explain

When archaeologists unwrapped an Egyptian mummy, they weren’t expecting jewels, a curse, or a royal secret — they found pages from a lost book written in a language that didn’t even belong in Egypt.
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Egyptian mummies : a pop-up book / [illustrated by Roger Stewart ; written by Milbry Polk ; paper-engineered by José R. Seminario ; art direction by Jim Deesing]

Unwrap a mummy to see what lies beneath its bandages...lift the layers of a pharaoh's coffin...help an ancient priest remove the organs from a soon-to-be-mummified body! EGYPTIAN MUMMIES : A POPUP ...