An ancient wooden sarcophagus was finally returned to Egypt after U.S. officials determined it had been looted over a decade ago. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said in September the "Green ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Nosferatu Sarcophagus at AMC CityWalk, Universal Studios, Hollywood. Whether you're enraptured by the 250-pound replica ...

Israeli archaeologists recently uncovered an ancient sarcophagus depicting a scene familiar to many today: a drinking game. The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced the discovery in a Facebook ...

"In the center we see Dionysus, the god of wine, and around him a lively retinue of a host of mythological characters such as Maenads (female followers of Dionysus), satyrs, Hermes, Pan, lions and ...

Archaeologists in Budapest have opened a sealed Roman limestone coffin that had rested undisturbed for roughly 1,700 years, revealing the remains of a woman and a carefully arranged collection of ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have opened up a mysterious ancient ‘cursed’ black granite sarcophagus. The massive coffin, which was recently excavated in the city of Alexandria, has now been opened, ...

A remarkably well-preserved Roman sarcophagus has been unearthed in Hungary’s capital, offering a rare window into the life of the young woman inside and the world she inhabited around 1,700 years ago ...

The artifact was unearthed under the floor of a Coptic structure in 2009, though its owner remained a mystery. From its decoration, researchers were only able to pinpoint that it had been used to ...