It was identified as a 1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus that had carved garlands, flowers, grapes, and several heads of a horned ox-like animal. The lid of the sarcophagus was missing and replaced ...

Now displayed vertically, this huge piece of carved granite is the sarcophagus lid of Ramesses III. This effigy of the king shows him in the form of an Egyptian god Sokar-Osiris who protected the ...

Investigations were made and finally the conclusion was reached that it was the sarcophagus of Alexander the Great. Its sculpture, on this theory, represents the battle of Arbela, a lion hunt and ...