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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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First-ever Iliad papyrus found inside Egyptian mummy

Archaeologists at Egypt’s ancient Oxyrhynchus site have discovered a 1,600-year-old Roman-era mummy containing a papyrus fragment from Homer’s Iliad, marking the first known instance of a Greek ...
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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 ...

Archaeologists stunned to find copy of Homer’s Iliad inside ancient Egyptian mummy

Archaeologists have found a papyrus copy of Homer’s Iliad in the gut of an ancient Egyptian mummy, the first time ever that a ...

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 ...
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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 ...

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 ...
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Liberia: Police Order Halt to Embalming as Probe Begins into Deaths of Two Catholic Priests

MONROVIA -The Liberia National Police has launched a formal investigation into the sudden and troubling deaths of two senior Catholic priests, ordering that no embalming procedures be conducted on ...
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Shift away from embalming has lawmakers rethinking Georgia’s requirements for funeral home directors

Sen. Rick Williams, a Milledgeville Republican, presents SB 239, which would remove the requirement that funeral directors be licensed in embalming in order to work in Georgia, on Feb. 5, 2026, in ...