Experts working in the Tomb of Cerberus in Giugliano, an area in Naples, unsealed a 2,000-year-old sarcophagus. Inside they found the remains of a shockingly well-preserved body lying face-up and ...

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RICHMOND, IN — On Tuesday, Oct. 7, Richmond's new Northwoods League baseball team revealed its name, Flying Mummies. But what exactly are the stories behind Indiana's two permanent mummified residents ...

CAIRO, Feb 10(bdnews24.com/Reuters) - Egyptian archaeologists have found about 30 mummies and at least one unopened sarcophagus in a burial chamber about 4,300 years ...

Deep in a vandalized tomb, explorers find the shattered sarcophagus of the heretic pharaoh—and a stunning secret. Carved into the granite, the sun god’s rays reach down toward the coffin while four ...

A fragment of the sarcophagus of Ramesses II. Photo: Kevin Cahail An engraved stone slab found under a Coptic building in Abydos, Egypt, is part of the sarcophagus of Ramesses II, according to a team ...

For 3,000 years the mistakes made by the ancient Egyptians while preparing bodies for mummification were well-kept secrets. Those days are over. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’ “Mummy: Secrets of ...

LUXOR, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian authorities on Saturday unveiled a well-preserved mummy of a woman inside a previously unopened coffin in Luxor in southern Egypt dating back to more than 3,000 years ...