Want to ride into the eternal sunset aboard an eagle, or in a bright yellow sports car? The makers of Ghana’s fantasy coffins ...

A burial chamber containing the remains of an ancient Egyptian priestess has been unearthed after nearly 4,000 years. Named ...

She lived during Egypt's Middle Kingdom (2030 to 1640 B.C.) and died around the age of 40, according to Live Science.

Idy, the daughter of a wealthy governor who lived around 1880 BC, was found in a coffin within another coffin in a tomb in the city of Asyut, 200 miles south of Cairo. Described as 'some of the ...

In Germany, as in most countries around the world, such an event would be unthinkable. Here, the deceased are either buried in a coffin or cremated, moving speeches are made and the mourners throw ...

but when the family’s gathered around to say goodbye to Uncle Ted, it figures they'd prefer to see him go in something more sophisticated than a super-sized holdall. Coffins’ handles ...

Scans of mummies at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History uncovered new details about how they were prepared for the afterlife and helped solve a baffling mystery.

The Victorians famously got around their 'Taphophobia' by attaching bells above ground to coffins six feet under ... tragic stories are heard from all over the world of people being wrongly ...

The coffins produced in this downtown funeral ... Mozambique is one of the poorest countries in the world with around 75% of its 33 million people living on less than a US dollar a day.

An impressive discovery has been made in China, where an ancient king's tomb with 350 artefacts dating back 5,000 years has ...

One of the coffins the Field scanned was thought to ... The scans themselves will be shared with other researchers around the world.