This site is developed by a amateur photographer who's traveled to quite a few exotic destinations. A comprehensive description of King Tut's Sarcophagus as well as some great photographs are offered here.

Sarcophagus of Alexander (So-called) - Morey, 1903

The pyramid when completed had a height of 481 feet. It is now 451 feet high. Its base covers 13 acres. Some of the blocks of white limestone used in construction weigh 50 tons. The facing of polished stone was gradually removed for...

This mummy cartonnage is made of rough linen with a layer of plaster in various colors. The features look Roman.

This wooden inner coffin is covered with gilded stucco and inlaid with semiprecious stones and colored glass. It is decorated with figures of divinities.

This wooden inner coffin of Thuya is gilded on the outside and silvered on the inside and decorated with divinities who protect the deceased.

This wooden anthropoid coffin belongs to Aba, son of Ankh-Hor. Aba was the governor of Upper Egypt and the chief of its treasury.

The middle coffin of the three that were originally placed one inside the other in Tutankhamun's tomb. It is made of compact wood, covered with sheets of gold and is inlaid with semiprecious stones and multicolored glass.

Anubis, the black jackal, was the animal that personified the deity who was believed to protect the cemetery, and thus became the patron deity of mummification. On this cartonnage piece, the jackal-headed god comes, carrying the disk of...

This giant outer coffin of Queen Meritamun, wife of Amenhotep the First, is considered to be one of the finest coffins ever made in Egypt.

This inner coffin depicts Queen Meritamun the wife of Amenhotep the first of the 18th Dynasty. in the form of a mummy. The lid is covered with a feather design and hieroglyphics.