Jul 27, 2026 | Journal
The headline on this one writes itself, so let me get it out of the way: a 1,600-year-old Egyptian mummy, excavated from a Roman-era tomb at Oxyrhynchus, was found to have a fragment of Homer’s Iliad packed inside its wrappings \u2014 specifically into the...
Jul 26, 2026 | Journal
Two years ago, a paper in Nature announced a single strange object: a galaxy at redshift 4.65, already as massive as a respectable present-day disk, and already done forming stars. The universe was about 1.4 billion years old. The galaxy had no business being retired....
