Construction crews working on an apartment building in Philadelphia's historic district got a shock last month when their backhoes started hitting coffins and unearthing fully intact human remains.

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The discovery of a pristine Roman coffin in the heart of modern Budapest offers an unusually intimate glimpse into life and death on the empire’s distant frontier. Archaeologists working on a large ...

A coffin that was described as "historically unique" was damaged when someone apparently thought it was a good idea to put their child inside it to take a photograph, the BBC reported. "You really don ...

Locating a 1,700-year-old Roman-era sarcophagus in Budapest was exciting enough for archaeologists with the Budapest History Museum. But finding that it was completely untouched for centuries, ...

PHILADELPHIA — Construction crews working on an apartment building in Philadelphia’s historic district got a shock last month when their backhoes started hitting coffins and unearthing fully intact ...

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 ...