A new study has revealed more about the ancestral origins of the ancient practice, which involves mounting coffins on cliffs.

A new study has uncovered a direct genetic link between ancient practitioners of the Hanging Coffin burial tradition and the ...

This research has proven to be an important step in understanding the genes and cultural history of the Bo people and their ...

A new study shows that DNA from ancient hanging coffin practitioners in China is still present in the Bo ethnic group.

Kim Kardashian’s Met Gala photo alongside a stolen golden Egyptian coffin unexpectedly helped expose an international ...

A massive 4,000-year-old Bronze Age coffin, carved from a single oak tree and discovered by chance at a Lincolnshire golf club, has arrived at Lincoln Museum, UK, where it will be displayed to the ...

KUNMING -- A Chinese-led study has uncovered a genetic lineage linking the mysterious practitioners of the millennium-old ...

Untouched by looters and sealed for centuries, the sarcophagus was found with its stone lid still fixed in place, secured by ...

Experts in Kent are to undertake a painstaking operation to relocate an Ancient Egyptian coffin lid to its new home. The 3,000-year-old artefact currently resides in the Great Hall at Chiddingstone ...

The contents of six sealed ancient Egyptian animal coffins — which were imaged using a non-invasive technique — are described in a study published in Scientific Reports. The mummification of animals ...