It was not exceptional for Roman-era mummies to be buried with papyri. This has been confirmed by the Oxirrhynchus Archaeological Mission, from the Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Studies (IPOA) of the University of Barcelona, in the exhumations they have carried out in the Egyptian town of El-Bahnasa, ancient Oxirrhynchus. "They placed the papyri in the chest and pelvic area, under the wrapping, folded and sealed with clay, and they contained magical texts written in Greek," explains Maite Mascort, who directs, with Esther Pons, the archaeological mission that began in 1992. For the first time, however, a fragment of a literary text has appeared, Homer's "Iliad". It is not that the deceased was a lover of texts that explain the pain and anger of some of the protagonists of the Trojan War, but rather that the papyrus was reused. "A manuscript of the Iliad" was used to write the magical texts that used to accompany the deceased," assures Mascort.