The Ptolemaic era outer coffin of the boy bears painted details, inscriptions in Greek letters, and hieroglyphics.
An excavation spanning over 11 years is turning up valuable information about everyday life in old Egypt.
The ancient scribbles, written in Tamil, read, “Cikai Korran came here and saw.”
This is probably not how the ancient Egyptian priests thought their afterlife would go.
The Ushbati figurines were meant to work for the dead.
Researchers analyzed brown residue in an incredibly rare alabaster vase.
A strangely smooth expanse of granite on the Menkaure Pyramid might be a second entrance.
The mummy’s outer coffin, two in its sarcophagus. Image: SN Saleem, SA Seddik, M el-Halwagy 
