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The Iliad was written after the classical era of Bronze Age Egypt, so no classical age mummy could be buried with the Iliad because it didn't exist yet.
by lkrubner 5mo ago
The Iliad was written after the classical era of Bronze Age Egypt, so no classical age mummy could be buried with the Iliad because it didn't exist yet.
- bee_rider 5mo agoThat would have made it all the more exciting! Although less likely.
- cucumber3732842 4mo agoI think the point was that it would be a lot more interesting had it dated to a time prior to people for whom the Iliad was part of their culture were present in the region and when such artifacts would have been normal-ish Finding american freed slave papers in a grave at Valley Forge -> ever so slightly interesting, we know those people were around there at that time. Finding american freed slave papers in a grave outside an 1870s British encampment in Sudan -> very interesting how did this get here. Or kind of like how finding Christian stuff in a roman grave varies a lot in implication by the year.