The fragment is from Book 12, when Zeus curses Odysseus' men for killing and eating Helios' sacred cattle.
A researcher was perusing a collection of old Egyptian texts in a Dutch library when he stumbled upon a torn piece of parchment containing a pivotal story: a section from Homer's "Odyssey." The fragment appears to be from a pocket edition of the epic produced in Egypt around A.D. 300.
The researcher, Mark de Kreij, a Greek literature expert and professor at Radboud University in the Netherlands, found the parchment while studying early Christian manuscripts that the Utrecht University library purchased in the mid-20th century, according to a Sept. 14 statement from Utrecht University. Among a collection of Egyptian and Greek texts, de Kreij found a tiny piece of parchment with words he recognized from Homer's epic.
"There are so many boring parts in the Odyssey," de Kreij told RTV Utrecht. "This happens to be a really fun passage."

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Hayden Panettiere's on-and-off boyfriend Brian Hickerson was with her at the time of her death in South Carolina. Now, a neighbor from Hayden's home in Los Angeles is coming forward with disturbing claims about what she says she witnessed in the years leading up to Hayden's tragic death. Hickerson's attorney told Access that Hayden's death remains under investigation and that they had no further comment following the neighbor's allegations.

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