On July 23, a retiree who was vacationing at a seaside resort along the Black Sea in northern Bulgaria was walking down Varna ...

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The discovery of artifacts near the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun may be the oldest known evidence of a ritual known as the ...

The king's mummy and sarcophagus are missing from the royal tomb, which is the second of its kind unearthed this year ...

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The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's long history.

revealing treasure or a royal sarcophagus. No such luck—but that didn't diminish the mystery that enshrouds the ancient city in Guatemala. Founded in 200 B.C., it emerged as a regional ...

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The remains belonged to a man named Heka-shepes. "The sarcophagus was found sealed with mortar, just as the ancient Egyptians had left it 4,300 years ago," Dr. Hawass said on Facebook Thursday.