Archaeologists have found something unexpected inside the burial of a 1,600-year-old Roman-era Egyptian mummy: a fragment of Homer’s Iliad. Perhaps even more surprising, however, was where they found it – not alongside the body, but stuffed inside its abdomen. As an Egyptologist and ancient historian explain, the Iliad was read and recycled in surprising ways across the Roman empire.

Despite resignations from his government yesterday, efforts to oust Keir Starmer have so far failed to get off the ground. In fact, the Labour party’s internal rules mean that he’s a lot harder to get rid of than other recent prime ministers.

And what is the mental toll for those people quarantined on the MV Hondius cruise ship in the grip of the hantavirus? A psychologist explains.

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