A number of rare religious relics were uncovered in 2024, with some on display to the public, giving people a better understanding about the time they first appeared in history.

Long fascinated by ancient Egyptian artefacts ... a trustee for the British Museum and under that guise had obtained a sarcophagus in Paris some years previously. The sarcophagus had been made ...

After detailed scans of the find and a yearslong preservation process, experts identified the material as a 1,600-year-old purple fabric woven with gold threads. Its purple dye, now faded to a red ...

"All of the sarcophagi that I've seen in Egypt were made of stone," said Browder, an author of several books on ancient Egypt. That means the top of the sarcophagus would have weighed about the ...