Archaeologists have ignited the world’s imagination with the discovery of a large granite sarcophagus in Egypt. The find is especially intriguing because its mortar seal is completely intact, meaning ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of Egypt’s “Dark Sarcophagus,” and while it turned out that the mysterious coffin was not, in fact, holding the body of Alexander the Great, the newly discovered ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have opened up a mysterious ancient ‘cursed’ black granite sarcophagus. The massive coffin, which was recently excavated in the city of Alexandria, has now been opened, ...

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian archaeologists on Thursday dashed local hopes that a newly discovered ancient sarcophagus might contain the remains of Alexander the Great, finding instead the ...

After Alexander the Great died, his body became one of the most valuable political weapons in the ancient world. A massive funeral carriage pulled by 64 mules carried his gold sarcophagus across the ...

Sidon, a port city about 25 miles south of Beirut whose rich history dates to 4000 B.C., was among the most successful of the Phoenician city-states. In the fourth century B.C., it fell to Alexander ...