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A scientist was browsing a collection of old Egyptian texts in a Dutch library when he came across a torn piece of parchment including a critical story: an area from Homer’s “Odyssey.” The piece seems from a pocket edition of the impressive produced in Egypt around A.D. 300.

The scientist, Mark de Kreija Greek literature professional and teacher at Radboud University in the Netherlands, discovered the parchment while studying early Christian manuscripts that the Utrecht University library acquired in the mid-20th century, according to a Sept. 14 declaration from Utrecht University. Amongst a collection of Egyptian and Greek texts, de Kreij discovered a small piece of parchment with words he acknowledged from Homer’s impressive.

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