The record-breaking tomb had a sealed sarcophagus containing the mummy of a man that a hieroglyphic inscription identifies as Hekashepes, and whose remains were found covered with gold. "When the ...

The wooden sarcophagus, dating from the Ptolemaic period (4th–3rd century BCE), is adorned with hieroglyphs identifying the former occupant as "Pa-di-Hor-pa-khered," which translates to "he who was ...

On Jan. 3, 1924, two years after rediscovering the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in Egypt, Howard Carter and his workers found the stone sarcophagus that contained the gold coffin and mummy of the ...

Archaeologists have announced a host of new discoveries at the Tombs of Saqqara in the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis, including a 4,300-year-old mummy covered in gold leaf.