Kenneth Garrett, June 2005 National Geographic magazine VISCERA COFFIN Tutankhamun possessed four miniature coffins fashioned of gold and inlaid ... some 62 tombs of Egyptian pharaohs and nobles.

is the most well-known of Egypt’s pharaohs due to the 20th century discovery of his remarkable tomb. Inside a stone sarcophagus were three more coffins, with the final gold coffin containing the ...

After Egypt was united pharaohs were often depicted wearing two crowns — one for Lower Egypt ... by soldiers to a ruler in exchange for gold. Scholars often refer to dynasties 18 to 20 as ...

Archaeologists working in Egypt have unearthed a previously undiscovered school in the grand mortuary temple of Pharaoh Ramesses II, dubbed the Ramesseum, on the West Bank of Luxor in the Theban ...