Talk about buried tea. Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a stash of 3,000-year-old papyrus scrolls — and whatever’s ...

Construction crews working on an apartment building in Philadelphia's historic district got a shock last month when their backhoes started hitting coffins and unearthing fully intact human remains.

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The discovery of a pristine Roman coffin in the heart of modern Budapest offers an unusually intimate glimpse into life and death on the empire’s distant frontier. Archaeologists working on a large ...

Nut’s cosmological vignette on the outer coffin of Nesitaudjatakhet in the collection of Odessa Archaeological Museum (© Odessa Archaeological Museum, photo by Mykola Tarasenko) The sky has been a ...

A tightly packed chamber in the Theban Necropolis has yielded an arresting discovery: 22 painted wooden coffins, each containing a mummy, dating to Egypt's Third Intermediate Period (1077–664 BCE).

A coffin that was described as "historically unique" was damaged when someone apparently thought it was a good idea to put their child inside it to take a photograph, the BBC reported. "You really don ...

PHILADELPHIA — Construction crews working on an apartment building in Philadelphia’s historic district got a shock last month when their backhoes started hitting coffins and unearthing fully intact ...

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