Tutankhamun is one of the best known figures of Ancient Egypt, and now his coffin is getting some tender loving care. The boy king’s gilded coffin has been moved from his tomb in Luxor to the Grand ...

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has been forced to return an Egyptian child's coffin to Sweden after it was revealed to have been stolen from the country in 1970. The 3,000-year-old coffin was used ...

Detail of a gilded coffin lid for the Priest Nedjemankh (late Ptolemaic Period, 150-50 BCE) (all images © the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) The Metropolitan ...

Conservators at the Perth Museum and Art Gallery in Scotland made a surprising discovery when they cracked open the coffin of a nearly 3,000-year-old mummy for the first time in a century. Decorating ...

Egypt displayed a gilded ancient coffin from the first century B.C. on Tuesday, which the Metropolitan Museum of Art returned last week after U.S. investigators determined it to be a looted antiquity.

An ordinary day at a museum in the United Kingdom went horribly wrong when a family’s failed photo op broke an 800-year-old coffin. On a recent visit to Prittlewell Priory Museum in Southend, Essex, a ...

The stolen 2,100-year-old coffin of a 1st Century B.C. Egyptian priest named Nedjemankh has been returned back to the country of its origins after the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art will return an ancient gilded coffin to Egypt after New York prosecutors determined that it had been looted from that country, the museum said. The museum had purchased ...

King Tutankhamun’s golden-plated coffin is being restored for the first time since the discovery of his tomb in 1922. The boost for the child king’s coffin comes as the Grand Egyptian Museum prepares ...

A team of researchers led by Professor Peter D. Manuelian, director of the Harvard Semitic Museum, has discovered an image of an ancient Egyptian deity inside a 3,000-year-old coffin. The discovery ...