One of the gold tongues found inside a mummy at the archaeological site of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. (Image credit: Courtesy of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities) Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a Roman-era mummy with a copy of Homer's epic poem the "Iliad" inside its abdomen ‪—‬ a unique find that archaeologists are calling "exceptional." Written on papyrus in Greek, the text records part of Book 2 of the " Iliad , " which details the legendary Trojan War . The text found in the mummy lists the ships used against the city of Troy, according to a statement from the University of Barcelona. It would have been placed within the abdomen during the embalming ritual. The site of Oxyrhynchus has been excavated off and on for well over a century. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, archaeologists found around 500,000 fragments of papyri at the site.…