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 ...

Isis and Osiris were the Queen and King of ancient Egypt and were deeply in love. Osiris had a jealous brother named Seth who wished to take the throne. He fashioned a beautiful, custom coffin to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...