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"textContent": "The excavation of a Roman-era cemetery in Egypt has revealed a 1600-year-old mummy that had been entombed with a papyrus containing an fragment from Homer's epic The Iliad at its abdomen. Owen Jarus's article in _New Scientist_ :\n\n> _Written on papyrus in Greek, the text records part of Book 2 of the \"Iliad,\" which details the legendary Trojan War._\n\n— Read the rest \n\nThe post Someone put the dullest part of The Iliad inside a mummy appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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