Surge in cremation reveals surprising truths about what Americans want when they die

While 72.6% of respondents said they would consider cremation, only 33.4% ranked it as their actual first choice ...
ZME Science

Archaeologists Found a Copy of the Iliad Stuffed Inside an Ancient Egyptian Mummy

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

Archaeologists Unearth a Papyrus Fragment From the ‘Iliad’ Tucked Inside the Wrappings of a 1,600-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy

The excerpt from Homer's epic poem features his catalog of ships, a famous passage listing the Greek forces that sailed to ...
The Diplomat

How Bonded Labor Fuels Illegal Organ Harvesting in Pakistan

Pakistan’s brick kiln industry in particular is known for the peshgi system, which leaves workers forever trapped in debt – ...
Proto Thema

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

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

Spanish Archaeologists Discover a 1,600-Year-Old Roman-Era Mummy in Egypt with a Fragment of Homer’s Iliad Intact

A 1,600-year-old burial at Oxyrhynchus just rewrote what experts thought they knew about mummification rituals.

What lies inside a 1,600-year-old mummy: The shocking discovery of Homer’s Iliad fragment sealed within a Roman-era Egyptian burial

A Roman-era burial site in Egypt has produced a surprising archaeological find. A fragment of Homer’s Iliad was discovered ...

Archaeological mission in Oxyrhynchus has found Homer's 'Iliad' inside a Roman-era mummy

The Oxyrhynchus Archaeological Mission, run by the Institute of Ancient Near East Studies (IPOA) at the University of ...
EurekAlert!

The University of Barcelona ’s archaeological mission in Oxyrhynchus has found Homer’s ‘Iliad’ inside a Roman-era mummy

The Oxyrhynchus Archaeological Mission, run by the Institute of Ancient Near East Studies (IPOA) at the University of ...

School cell phone ban, human composting bills among hundreds advancing in Springfield

Senate Bill 2427, sponsored by Rep. Michelle Mussman, D-Schaumburg, passed 102-3, with one present vote. It would require ...

Inside ‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’: False Rumors, Real Grief, and the Scariest Monster of His Career

Writer/director Lee Cronin talks his fiendish new film for Warner Bros. Plus, James Wan, Catholic guilt, and more with ...