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First-of-Its-Kind Discovery: Homer’s Iliad Found Embedded in a 1,600-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy
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First-of-Its-Kind Discovery: Homer’s Iliad Found Embedded in a 1,600-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy

Researchers discovered an Iliad fragment in a mummy, marking the first literary papyrus used in embalming and offering new evidence of cultural practices in Roman Egypt. More than 1,600 years after it was written, one of the most famous stories in human history has resurfaced in an unexpected place — wrapped around the dead. Archaeologists [...]

Ancient Document Confirms “Legendary” African King Actually Existed
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Ancient Document Confirms “Legendary” African King Actually Existed

A small, newly uncovered document from ancient Dongola is reshaping what historians know about a little-understood period in Sudan’s past. A small Arabic document found in the ruins of Old Dongola is helping confirm the existence of King Qashqash, a ruler long treated as legendary. The study, published in Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, examines [...]

Ancient Egyptian Mummy Found Wrapped In Something Never Seen Before
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Ancient Egyptian Mummy Found Wrapped In Something Never Seen Before

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Athena bowl: A silver and gold vessel of the goddess and her owl, buried in a German forest 2,000 years ago
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Athena bowl: A silver and gold vessel of the goddess and her owl, buried in a German forest 2,000 years ago

The ornately decorated metal bowl was found as part of a hoard containing dozens of pieces of ancient Roman tableware.

The Paranal solar ESPRESSO Telescope, a New Tool for Finding Exoplanets
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The Paranal solar ESPRESSO Telescope, a New Tool for Finding Exoplanets

The Paranal solar ESPRESSO Telescope (PoET), installed at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) Paranal site in Chile, has made its first observations. The telescope will work with ESO's ESPRESSO instrument to study the sun in detail. Described as a solar telescope for planet hunters, PoET aims to understand how the variation in the light from stars like the sun can mask the presence of planets orbiting them, helping us in our search for worlds outside the solar system.