The Vatican has released photos and a video showing the body of Pope Francis lying in an open coffin. According to the BBC, which published multiple of the open coffin photos, the Pope "Is dressed in ...

Once the lid was off the wood coffin holding the 2,500-year-old mummified remains of a 14-year-old Egyptian boy, scientist J.P. Brown could relax. The conservator at Chicago's Field Museum and three ...

Six open coffins are paraded around a church and its cemetery as onlookers sing religious songs -- but their occupants are all perfectly alive. This strange ritual takes place on July 29 each year in ...

KOROSTYSHIV, Ukraine (AP) — Three open coffins, one adult-sized, one medium and one child-sized, lay inside the Soviet-era Palace of Culture in a northern Ukrainian city. They were surrounded by ...

Archaeologists in Budapest have opened a sealed Roman sarcophagus that had not been disturbed for roughly 1,700 years, revealing the remarkably preserved burial of a young woman and a cache of grave ...

Essie Dunbar was pronounced dead after suffering an epileptic seizure but her family discovered she was still alive when they ...