Cleaning work at a 3,900-year-old tomb in Egypt turned into a much larger ... A photo shows the colorful and well-preserved ...

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 author of several books on ancient Egypt. That means the top of the sarcophagus would have weighed about the same as a car — much too heavy for someone with normal strength to push aside ...

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 ...