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 ...

YOSHINOGARI, Saga Prefecture--A grave with a stone coffin around 2.3 meters long and dating to the latter part of the Yayoi Period (c. 1000 B.C.-250 A.D.) was unearthed at a major archaeological ...

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 ...