The papyrus fragment with a passage from Homer's IliadIgnasi-Xavier Adiego
The papyrus fragment with a passage from Homer's IliadIgnasi-Xavier Adiego
None of the ship captains listed in that part of the Iliad were known to have ever come from or gone to Egypt. I’m wondering if maybe one of the sailors on one of the ships ended up there though and that’s why the scrap was included in their wrappings.
Wow! What a great discovery.
The longest Etruscan text in existence, the Zagreb mummy wrapping, was written on a linen cloth later used in the mummification of a person in Egypt. Someone brought the mummy to Croatia in the 19th century and the text was later discovered.
