Archaeologists stunned to find copy of Homer’s Iliad inside ancient Egyptian mummy

Archaeologists have found a papyrus copy of Homer’s Iliad in the gut of an ancient Egyptian mummy, the first time ever that a ...
Proto Thema

The stomach of an Egyptian mummy concealed a copy of the Iliad – Archaeologists were stunned

The mummy had been buried during the Roman period in Oxyrhynchus about 1,600 years ago. It is the first time a Greek literary ...
Greek Reporter

World’s Oldest Gym Membership Was Written in Greek 1,800 Years Ago

Oldest gym membership written in Greek on papyrus 1,800 years ago reveals structured athletic life in Roman Egypt.
Greek Reporter

Homer’s Greek Was Never a Spoken Language, Yet It Lives on in Modern Greek

Homer's language, used in his epic poems, which laid the foundations of Western literature, was never spoken but echoes in ...
Artnet

Fragments of Previously ‘Lost’ Euripides Tragedies Have Been Translated

In one of the most significant discoveries related to Ancient Greek literature over the past half century, archaeologists have uncovered around 100 lines from two otherwise lost plays by the ...
The Conversation

Ancient scrolls are being ‘read’ by machine learning – with human knowledge to detect language and make sense of them

A groundbreaking announcement for the recovery of lost ancient literature was recently made. Using a non-invasive method that harnesses machine learning, an international trio of scholars retrieved 15 ...

TOPPAN Group Develops AI-OCR to Decipher Medieval Greek Manuscripts

Printing Museum, Tokyo to present research findings on the Vatican Apostolic Library’s Greek Manuscripts at “How Masterpieces Are Born: ...