"The fact that we found the sarcophagus so close to the church, which has long been associated with his burial site, may confirm the theory about the location of this holy area," Findik stated ...

The Gallic burials are odd because of the position ... a horseman and poet who died in 1560. The other sarcophagus contains Antoine de la Porte, a church authority who died in 1710.

Archaeologists exploring a neglected corner of the Valley of Kings have discovered the tomb of a long-forgotten Egyptian ...

Photo from Lucie Marquat / Inrap Archaeologists in central France looked inside the ancient sarcophagus they’d recently unearthed. Something across the top of the burial seemed to glint in the sun.

Among a collection of ancient tombs unearthed in 2024 stands a masterpiece: a sealed Iron Age sarcophagus. This extraordinary find, dating back to the 7th century BC to late 6th century BC ...

Pakal was buried in a large sarcophagus (stone coffin) in the largest of Palenque’s pyramids, known as the Temple of the Inscriptions. The skeletal remains inside the coffin still had the jade ...