In October 2023, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery of a 3,500-year-old sarcophagus ...
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Inside a stone sarcophagus were three more coffins ... King Tut’s rule was very short and he had little impact on Egyptian society. He was actually just a boy king – crowned age nine or ...
Archaeologists in Egypt pried open a mysterious, 2,000-year-old sarcophagus found in the port city of Alexandria earlier this month. While some had thought the sarcophagus may contain royalty, or ...
"All of the sarcophagi that I've seen in Egypt were made of stone," said Browder, an author of several books on ancient Egypt. That means the top of the sarcophagus would have weighed about the ...
Researchers have found mummies in ancient Egypt smell "sweet" and "spicy", even after 5,000 years in a sarcophagus. Scientists at University College London have been using "human sniffers" and an ...
A stone sarcophagus exhibited in the Xi'an Museum exposed to the laser pointer Photo: Xinhua News Agency A viral social media post revealed that a tour guide used a laser pointer while explaining ...