This Egyptian Mummy Had Homer’s Iliad Inside

[00:00:00]Archaeologists in Egypt just found a mummy with part of one of the most famous war stories ever written placed inside its body. At Al-Bahnasa, the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus, a Spanish-Egyptian team uncovered a Roman-era burial dating back around 1,600 [music] years. Nearby, they found mummies with gold and copper tongues, symbols believed [music] to help the dead speak in the afterlife. But one mummy held something no gold could explain. A papyrus [music] fragment of Homer's Iliad placed on the abdomen during the embalming ritual. [music] And the passage was not random. It came from the catalog of ships, the list of warriors who sailed to Troy. So this person was not buried with treasure, but with the memory of an army. Why would someone [music] carry the Trojan War into the afterlife? Drop your theory below.