Six ancient Egyptian coffins were sealed, and their contents were unknown to researchers and were housed at the British Museum in London. Recent utilization of advanced technology allowed them to ...

This wooden painted coffin is for a male priest of the god ... to spend eternity in the 'Land of the West', a paradise like Egypt itself. It is described in an ancient song dating from around ...

Archaeologists in Saqqara make a dazzling discovery: a late period Egyptian coffin with a gilded mask. Now, to bring it to the surface, they use a pulley known as a "tambora," a technology that ...

Wed, February 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM UTC This NATO ally will ‘buy, buy, buy’ more weapons as quickly as possible after intelligence report says Russia may start a war in Europe in a few years ...

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The Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo will be home to more than 100,000 artefacts, including King Tut's "cursed" iconic gold mask and sarcophagus. The museum covers an impressive 500,000 square feet ...

YOSHINOGARI, Saga Prefecture--A grave with a stone coffin around 2.3 meters long and dating to the latter part of the Yayoi Period (c. 1000 B.C.-250 A.D.) was unearthed at a major archaeological ...

Archaeologists in Egypt just unearthed 30 ancient wooden coffins and opened them to reveal perfectly preserved mummies inside. A dig team stumbled upon the sarcophagi in the Asasif necropolis of ...

One museum visitor in Edinburgh was horrified to see stolen body parts belonging to his 19th century ancestors on display ...