The sarcophagus was recovered from a small Roman roadside cemetery, undisturbed since its burial in Roman times.

A handbook later classified it as empty. Dr Fraser ... apart" and ransacked by tomb raiders at some point in history. Only about 10% of the body remains in the coffin. Dr Fraser said its ...

In life, this individual was known as Tetinebefou, "conjurer of the goddess Serket,"  "director of medicinal plants," and ...

and his discovery was the intact pharaoh's tomb ever found. Inside the sarcophagus were three nested coffins, with the innermost coffin made of solid gold weighing 4,110 kilograms. When the inner ...

which likely belonged to a prehistoric king judging by the size of the tomb, coffins, and bounty of burial artifacts. In fact, experts now believe that the entire site could have been the capital ...

Experts wore face masks to open the sarcophagus, which released a terrible smell Three weeks ago, archaeologists in Egypt found a massive black granite sarcophagus in Alexandria, untouched for ...

A team of archeologists in Egypt have discovered the 4,000-year-old tomb of a renowned royal doctor ... They have also found a stone coffin engraved with hieroglyphics bearing the name and titles ...