The sarcophagus presented bright and well-preserved ... "Marge?" The finding of the mummy, who was covered with a mask and beaded dress, followed excavations at the site in Minya started in ...

A delicate operation to return an Egyptian mummy and a sarcophagus to Cairo cost University College Cork more than €34,000.

"Ushabtis were never put inside of the bodies of a mummy. They were typically buried around them, outside of the sarcophagus," he said. Ushabtis were meant to serve the deceased in the afterlife ...