And there is no way to trace the griffin legends from Central Asia to their first known origins in Egyptian and Middle ...

Dr Griffin said: “The coffin had to be painstakingly ... "It actually ended up being used as a storage box at one time, with other Egyptian objects placed in it for safekeeping,” he added.

The artefacts range from 1,400 to 7,000 years old, and come from across the ancient Egyptian world. But despite their disparate origins, the Egypt Centre's curator, Dr Ken Griffin, said they were ...