Archaeologists in Hungary have opened a sealed Roman coffin that had not been disturbed for roughly 1,700 years, revealing a remarkably preserved burial and a cache of grave goods. The sarcophagus, ...

The discovery of a pristine Roman coffin in the heart of modern Budapest offers an unusually intimate glimpse into life and death on the empire’s distant frontier. Archaeologists working on a large ...

The find in Saqqara included 150 bronze statues of ancient Egyptian deities. SAQQARA, Egypt -- Egypt has uncovered 2,500-year-old wooden coffins and bronze statues in the ancient necropolis of Saqqara ...

They date back to the 22nd Dynasty in the 10th century BC. Egypt unveiled 30 ancient wooden coffins on Saturday that were discovered in the southern city of Luxor, in what the country's antiquities ...

Six open coffins are paraded around a church and its cemetery as onlookers sing religious songs -- but their occupants are all perfectly alive. This strange ritual takes place on July 29 each year in ...