A sarcophagus discovered in 2009 in an Egyptian burial chamber came with a complicated history: Ancient writing on the ...

Samples of the Black Death, which wiped out as many as 50 million people in medieval Europe, have been found in an ancient Egyptian mummy ... disease progression. A sarcophagus from the collection ...

That means the top of the sarcophagus ... Mummy" would have you believe pyramids were often booby-trapped. But that's not based in fact, said Browder. "The idea of booby traps in ancient-Egyptian ...