While working on a highway in Britain, construction crews have unearthed an ancient stone coffin filled with plaster. The intricately carved coffin weighs around 1,650 pounds and dates back more ...

A "beautifully carved" ancient Roman stone coffin weighing more than 1,600 pounds has been unearthed during road upgrade works in the United Kingdom. The coffin was found along a section of the ...

Speculation was rife that someone in power was buried in the stone coffin, which dates back to the second half of the Yayoi Period (c. 1000 B.C.-250 A.D.), when the Yamatai state is believed to ...

The personal treasures of those buried have been provisionally dated to the late Roman Britain period (3rd-4th Centuries), and include a solid stone coffin containing a corpse set in gypsum.

Pakal was buried in a large sarcophagus (stone coffin) in the largest of Palenque’s pyramids, known as the Temple of the Inscriptions. The skeletal remains inside the coffin still had the jade ...