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An Egyptian archeologist points at a colored painting showing a sacrifice offering at a recently uncovered tomb that was said to belong to a top official of the fifth Dynasty named 'Ne Hesut Ba' (2,400 BCE), at the site of the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, Egypt, May 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
May 27, 2023, 6:26 pm
Egypt unveils recently discovered ancient workshops, tombs in Saqqara necropolis
Site at ancient capital of Memphis used to mummify humans and animals nearly 2,500 years ago
By AP
An ancient Egyptian sarcophagus undergoing a CT scan at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, May 21, 2023. (Shaare Zedek Medical Center)
May 22, 2023, 1:00 am
Ancient Egyptian sarcophagi undergo CT scans in Jerusalem hospital to reveal craft
Israel Museum expert says CT scans offer best way to examine how coffins, including one almost 3,000 years old, were made and decorated
By ToI Staff
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, center, standing in front of an ancient wooden sarcophagus, speaks during a handover ceremony at the foreign ministry in Cairo, Egypt, January 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohamed Salah)
January 2, 2023, 3:39 pm
2,500-year-old looted sarcophagus returned to Egypt from US
Three-meter-tall coffin, which may have belonged to priest named Ankhenmaat, was stolen and smuggled via Germany into US in 2008; returned in official Cairo ceremony
By AP
People look at ancient sarcophagi on display, discovered in a vast necropolis in Saqqara, Giza, Egypt, November 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
November 14, 2020, 11:48 pm
Egypt finds treasure trove of over 100 sarcophagi near Cairo
Sealed wooden coffins belonged to top officials of ancient Egypt some 2,500 years ago
By Sally Kandil and MENNA ZAKI
One of the sarcophagi discovered in the village of Tuna al-Gabal, near the Nile Valley city of Minya. (Egypt’s antiquities ministry via AP)
January 30, 2020, 10:46 pm
Egyptian archaeologists unveil ancient tombs, 2,500-year-old artifacts
Find includes 20 limestone sarcophagi etched with hieroglyphs, hundreds of amulets and 10,000 blue funerary statues dating to 664-399 BCE
By AHMED HATEM and MOHAMED SALAH
An ancient Egyptian sarcophagus (YouTube screenshot)
April 5, 2019, 8:30 pm
Ancient Egyptian sarcophagus to be opened on live TV
Thousands-year-old coffin to be featured on Discovery channel is believed to contain an Egyptian nobleman
By AFP
Bill Slott
January 17, 2018, 3:11 pm
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The Mazor mausoleum
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In this Oct. 30, 2013 photo, the solid gold mask of King Tutankhamun is seen in its glass case, in the Egyptian Museum near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
May 8, 2017, 9:24 am
Experts meet in Egypt over moving King Tut artifacts
Officials searching for safest method to transfer items following damage to burial mask in 2014
By MENNA ZAKI
Egyptian archaeologists work on a wooden coffin discovered in a 3,500-year-old tomb in the Draa Abul Nagaa necropolis, near the southern Egyptian city of Luxor, April 18, 2017. (AFP/Stringer)
April 18, 2017, 7:42 pm
Mummies, over 1,000 statues discovered in 3,500-year-old tomb in Egypt
Ancient burial chambers of a nobleman named Userhat near Luxor include colorful sarcophagi and other ritual items
By Mohamed Abdel Aziz
Illustrative: the ancient ruins of the Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egypt, November 30, 2014. (AP/Hassan Ammar)
November 13, 2016, 8:43 pm
Millennia-old mummy found in Egypt tomb
Ancient sarcophagus belonging to a nobleman discovered near the southern town of Luxor
By AFP
This undated photo released by the Israeli Foreign Ministry shows a part of sarcophagus cover in Israel. Israel's Antiquities Authority says the colorful sarcophagus covers date back as early as the 16th and 10th centuries BCE. (Israeli Foreign Ministry via AP)
June 22, 2016, 2:36 am
Plundered sarcophagi arrive in Egypt via Israel
Stolen covers smuggled into Israel set to go on display at Cairo’s Egyptian Museum
By Ilan Ben Zion and AP
This undated photo released by the Israeli Foreign Ministry shows a part of sarcophagus cover in Israel. Israel's Antiquities Authority says the colorful sarcophagus covers date back as early as the 16th and 10th centuries BCE. (Israeli Foreign Ministry via AP)
May 22, 2016, 11:23 pm
Israel returns looted ancient relics to Egypt
In mark of warming ties, Foreign Ministry gives back two rare sarcophagus lids, plundered after 2011 ‘Arab Spring’ revolution
By Ilan Ben Zion and Elie Leshem
Egyptian coffins in the Fiztwilliam Museum collection (screen capture: YouTube)
February 22, 2016, 11:44 pm
3,000-year-old fingerprints found on Egyptian mummy
Craftsmen touched varnish before it had dried on inner coffin lid made for chief of scribes at Thebes temple
By Sue Surkes
As Israeli antiquities authority worker cleans an 1,800 year-old stone sarcophagus outside the Israeli antiquities authority storage facility in Beit Shemesh on September 3, 2015 (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 3, 2015, 4:40 pm
Israel recovers ancient sarcophagus, after builders tried to hide it
Police quiz workers over discovery of 1,800-year-old limestone coffin during construction of Ashkelon neighborhood
By AFP
Ancient bronze model bull-driven cart (Photo credit: courtesy of the Jerusalem Bible Lands Museum)
May 9, 2015, 9:41 am
How did Abraham get from Mesapotamia to the Promised Land?
Solutions to this and other ancient mysteries abound at Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
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