The Egyptian coffin contained the mummified remains of ... high priestesses that represented the 12 hours of the day. The mummy was found in excellent condition, wearing a mask and beaded dress.

Named Idy, her remains were found in a coffin within another coffin in a tomb in the city of Asyut, Egypt, just about 200 miles south of Cairo. The excavations took place between Aug. 18 and Sept.

“It was clearly important that the inner coffin appeared whole and ... ‘Screaming woman’ may solve a 3,500-year-old mummy mystery.] “The ancient Egyptian view of the afterlife is similar ...

SCIENTISTS have been able to peer inside a 3,000-year-old Egyptian "locked mummy" coffin, without unwrapping the ancient casing. Using 3D scans, researchers caught a rare glimpse inside ancient ...

The mummy was placed in his coffin, or coffins, in the burial chamber and the entrance sealed up. Such elaborate burial practices might suggest that the Egyptians were preoccupied with thoughts of ...

Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced this week it had successfully recovered a rare trove of smuggled ...

The ancient Egyptians believed this allowed the person to use their senses in the afterlife. Then, the mummies were placed in a coffin and the coffin was put in a special room in the pyramid ...