Named Idy, her remains were found in a coffin within another coffin in a tomb in the city of Asyut, Egypt, just about 200 miles south of Cairo. The excavations took place between Aug. 18 and Sept.

SCIENTISTS have been able to peer inside a 3,000-year-old Egyptian "locked mummy" coffin, without unwrapping the ancient casing. Using 3D scans, researchers caught a rare glimpse inside ancient ...

The photo of the ancient coffin was recently shared on Reddit where it generated excitement from people on Reddit who asked 'Marge?' and joked that 'Egypt predicted Simpsons.' While the imagery ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered the remains of a mummy in a 2,500-year-old coffin that was previously ... "I've never excavated an Egyptian tomb, but this comes close." ...

Archaeologists recently found several coffins in an old cemetery in Minya, Egypt. However, a 3,000-year-old coffin’s lid from ...

Chicago’s Field Museum is home to over a dozen ancient Egyptian mummies but one in particular ... JP Brown likened the mummy and its cartonnage coffin to a model ship inside a bottle.

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 ...

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 ...

Mostafa Waziri said that the coffins were found in the Asasif Necropolis on the River Nile. Egypt's antiquities authority has revealed the details of 30 ancient wooden coffins recently discovered ...

21, 2020 11:24 a.m. | Monday, Sept. 21, 2020 11:24 a.m. Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed more than two dozen ancient coffins in a vast necropolis south of Cairo, an official said Monday.