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 ...

The archaeologists have made a stunning discovery of a 4000-year-old 'extraordinary' burial chamber of an Egyptian priestess ...

An ancient Egyptian coffin has been restored after decades of restoration. The artefact, believed to date from about 650 BC, is now back at Swansea University's Egypt Centre after thousands of ...

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 ...

The Gold Coffin of Nedjemankh is displayed during a news conference to announce its return the the people of Egypt. [Photo: REUTERS/Brendan McDermid] The gilded coffin of a high-ranking ancient ...

A pair of nesting coffins recently uncovered in an ancient Egyptian tomb has shed new light on an era of history that hasn't gotten much attention to this point. In October of 2024, it was ...

Inside a stone sarcophagus were three more coffins, with the final gold ... After fighting his envious uncle Seth, he became the king of Egypt – but, unfortunately, he also lost his eye during ...

20th Dynasty (circa 1186-1069 B.C.)," with Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities adding in a statement that there were also ornaments, amulets and coffins that have been discovered.

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 ...