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While excavating the first Egyptian pyramid ever built, archaeologists found sealed coffin. When they opened it, they discovered a 52-foot papyrus.

Few discoveries stop Egyptologists in their tracks, but this one did. During a routine excavation near Djoser’s Step Pyramid, the oldest of Egypt's pyramids, archaeologists brushed aside centuries of ...
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Ancient Egyptian Coffin Paintings Suggest Awareness of Milky Way

Nut’s cosmological vignette on the outer coffin of Nesitaudjatakhet in the collection of Odessa Archaeological Museum (© Odessa Archaeological Museum, photo by Mykola Tarasenko) The sky has been a ...
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Catacomb-style building re-emerges from the sand to reveal ancient Egyptian coffins

Archaeologists in Egypt uncovered a massive funeral building with ancient coffins in catacomb-style graves, photos show. Sifting through the sands of Faiyum (also spelled Fayoum), researchers ...
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The Egyptian mummies and coffins of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science history, technical analysis, and conservation edited by Michele L. Koons and Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod

Old friends, new tales : the mummies and coffins of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science / Michele L. Koons -- A history of research and exploring new narratives : contextualizing the Denver Museum ...