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Why was an Egyptian mummy stuffed with a fragment of Homer’s Iliad?

The fragment wasn’t placed besides the body, but stuffed inside it.

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The Conversation: Why was an Egyptian mummy stuffed with a fragment of Homer’s Iliad? — by Stephan Blum, Research Associate, Institute for Prehistory and Early History and Medieval Archaeology, University of Tübingen, Stefan Baumann, Assistant Professor of Egyptology, KU Leuven

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