When the museum purchased the ceramic coffin in 1985, the seller provided a letter from the Swedish artist Eric Ståhl, in which he described excavating the sarcophagus in Amada, Egypt ...

Archaeologists in Saqqara make a dazzling discovery: a late period Egyptian coffin with a gilded mask. Now, to bring it to the surface, they use a pulley known as a "tambora," a technology that ...

The Luxor coffins were moved to be showcased at the Grand Egyptian Museum, which Egypt is building near the Giza Pyramids. Egypt’s key tourism sector has suffered from the years of political ...

The 3,000-year-old coffin was used to bury a child named Paneferneb It was stolen from a Swedish museum around 1970 The coffin was missing for decades before it was bought by the Boston Museum The ...