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Crumpled Parchment Fragment in Utrecht University Library Turns Out to Be an Odyssey Excerpt from the Third Century AD
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The Utrecht University Library has held a crumpled parchment fragment for decades but only identified its text two years ago. The document is now confirmed to be an excerpt from Homer's Odyssey dating to the third century AD.
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