Archaeologists in Budapest have opened a sealed Roman sarcophagus that had not been disturbed for roughly 1,700 years, revealing the remarkably preserved burial of a young woman and a cache of grave ...

Pope Francis' coffin was sealed with a bag of coins minted during his papacy and a "rogito," a scroll that summarizes the accomplishments of the pope's life. John Allen, a longtime observer of the ...

A sealed crypt under a Polish monastery required archaeologists to tunnel underneath the building to investigate. Inside they found three layers of coffins, some stacked on metal rods. An unusual ...

Pope Francis’ wooden coffin was sealed on Friday night, in a private rite that officially ends three days of his body lying in state at the Vatican. About 250,000 people filed through St. Peter’s ...

A remarkably well-preserved Roman sarcophagus has been unearthed in Hungary’s capital, offering a rare window into the life of the young woman inside and the world she inhabited around 1,700 years ago ...

In a solemn ceremony on Friday evening inside St. Peter’s Basilica, the coffin of Pope Francis was officially sealed, marking the final rites before his funeral Mass, which began on Saturday morning.

They date back to the 22nd Dynasty in the 10th century BC. Egypt unveiled 30 ancient wooden coffins on Saturday that were discovered in the southern city of Luxor, in what the country's antiquities ...

Vatican City (CNN) — Pope Francis’ wooden coffin was sealed on Friday night, in a private rite that officially ends three days of his body lying in state at the Vatican. CNN — Vatican City (CNN) — ...