Archaeologists in Egypt Uncover a Well-Preserved Mummy Wearing Gold and Blue Sky God Mask Archaeologists in Egypt unearthed an ancient sarcophagus that contained a well-preserved mummy wrapped in ...

On this day, 101 years ago, archeologists unveiled the ancient Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamun ... The stone sarcophagus contained three gold coffins nestled in each other, with the innermost ...

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 coffins, with the final gold coffin containing the ...

According to the Egyptian Gazette, the painted wooden coffin belonged to a woman named ... "Egyptians thought of their gods as having skin of gold — an untarnishable material," Wegner said.

British archaeologist Howard Carter and his team of excavators opened the doors to the sarcophagus of the ruler itself.