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Old Gold-Laced Mummy With Ancient King's 'Secret Keeper' Discovered, Leaves Archaeologists Stunned In recent years, ...

The tree-lined, lichen-dappled stone walls that border the Bent ... Interestingly, Hamilton had also acquired the sarcophagus of Pa-ba-sa, an Egyptian noble in the reign of Psamtik I (664-610 ...

Tutankhamen, often referred to now as King Tut, is the most well-known of Egypt’s pharaohs due to the 20th century discovery of his remarkable tomb. Inside a stone sarcophagus were three more ...

Archaeologists in Egypt pried open a mysterious, 2,000-year-old sarcophagus found in the port city of Alexandria earlier this month. While some had thought the sarcophagus may contain royalty ...

Archaeologists have discovered a stone sarcophagus bearing his name and titles. The well-preserved walls of the tomb show scenes of offerings and depictions of daily life, providing a valuable glimpse ...

Pharaoh A ruler in Ancient Egypt. Sarcophagus A large decorative stone coffin in which a dead body was placed in ancient times. Sarcophagi is the plural term. Artefact A used item from the past ...

"All of the sarcophagi that I've seen in Egypt were made of stone," said Browder, an author of several books on ancient Egypt. That means the top of the sarcophagus would have weighed about the ...

Researchers have found mummies in ancient Egypt smell "sweet" and "spicy", even after 5,000 years in a sarcophagus.