2020年10月13日 · On Saturday, October 3, archaeologists from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities opened a sealed, roughly 2,600-year-old sarcophagus as a crowd of onlookers watched in anticipation.

A sarcophagus (pl.: sarcophagi or sarcophaguses) is a coffin, most commonly carved in stone, and usually displayed above ground, though it may also be buried.

Mummy cases were New Kingdom boxes that fit between the mummified human or animal and the coffin. They were made in two styles: a box and lid like a coffin, or a box with doors in the back that laced closed.

2024年5月30日 · In 1881, Ramses’ mummy and coffin were discovered in a hiding place in the temple complex Deir el-Bahari, which housed the remains of 50 other members of the nobility, including the pharaoh’s...

An Egyptian Sarcophagus is a carved, usually a stone container that usually houses a coffin and an Egyptian mummy. The word ‘sarcophagus’ is derived from Greek words “Sarx” meaning “flesh”, and “Phagien” meaning “to eat” derived from a Greek word for “flesh-eating.

2018年11月26日 · Egyptian officials have cracked open a sarcophagus discovered inside an ancient tomb in Luxor to reveal a well-preserved female mummy they believe is more than 3,000 years old.

A sarcophagus in ancient Egypt is a stone coffin or container used to hold a coffin. It was primarily used by Egyptian pharaohs and wealthy individuals during the 3rd dynasty, which reigned from about 2686 to 2613 B.C.E.

The mummy was often buried in more than one coffin, the outermost usually being rectangular and, certainly from the New Kingdom on, the innermost anthropoid. Famous examples are those of Tutankhamun, who was buried in a set of three nesting anthropoid coffins placed into a rectangular sarcophagus.

The wooden outer sarcophagus of Yuya, mummy-shape, is completely covered with a gold leaf and adorned with glass paste. Inside the sarcophagus, there were two Osiriform coffins with the mummy.

2023年1月30日 · In ancient Egypt, a sarcophagus was a coffin-like vessel designed to contain the mummified remains of the dead. Learn more interesting details!