Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced that a Spanish archaeological mission from the University of Barcelona ...

In case you haven't heard, The Odyssey is getting the Christopher Nolan treatment. With a cast including Matt Damon, Anne ...

Of all literary forms, poetry is one of the most ancient. The oldest known poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh, which was inscribed ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a 1,600-year-old mummy. Tucked within its abdomen was a well-known book -- a ...

Did the Amazons participate in the Trojan War as allies of Troy, or did they instead fight against the Trojans?

Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” ...

They say you end up in either ‘The Iliad' or ‘The Odyssey' camp, favouring one of Homer's epic Ancient Greek poems over the ...

Archaeologists had previously uncovered Greek papyri in mummies, but this discovery marks the first time a literary text has ...

The classically curious are not lazy. They are not unintelligent. They are under-briefed.”— Jeff WrightWATERLOO, ON, ...

It might have been mummy’s favorite bedtime story. Archaeologists found part of Homer’s “The Iliad” stuffed inside a ...

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