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A looted ancient Egyptian sarcophagus that was on display at a US museum has been returned to Egypt. The 2.9m (9.5ft) long "Green Coffin" dates back to the Late Dynastic Period, which spanned ...

An ancient Egyptian sarcophagus lid found in "an Indiana Jones moment" at a house in Essex has fetched £12,000 at auction. The top of the coffin is believed to be about 3,000 years old.

Cleaning work at a 3,900-year-old tomb in Egypt turned into a much larger ... A photo shows the colorful and well-preserved sarcophagus. The ancient burial chamber belonged to “a woman named ...

archaeologists in Egypt found a massive black granite sarcophagus in Alexandria, untouched for 2,000 years - and fleet-footed rumour quickly got to work. Could it contain the remains of ancient ...

Despite warnings of an ancient curse to those who would open the 2,000-year-old sarcophagus, archaeologists went ahead on Wednesday, enlisting the help of Egyptian military engineers. "The ...

X-ray scans have finally answered the mystery of how a famous Egyptian mummy was placed inside a coffin with no opening. Scientists were able to see into Lady Chenet-aa's sarcophagus for the first ...