An ancient Egyptian coffin was stolen from a university museum in Sweden around 1970 and sold to the MFA Boston, which has now returned it.

An oversized green Egyptian coffin lid most recently featured at the Houston Museum of Natural Science was returned to the people of Egypt this week, months after U.S. authorities discovered the ...

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has been forced to return an Egyptian child's coffin to Sweden after it was revealed to have been stolen from the Uppsala University Museum in 1970.

MFA returns Egyptian child’s coffin to Sweden after determining it was stolen Sometimes, says provenance curator Victoria Reed, ‘I just open a file, and I can see what’s wrong. … ...

Valued at $1 million, the ancient coffin was sold to a private collector and loaned to the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences, where it sat on display until it was seized by authorities last year ...

For decades, the coffin was relegated to an acrylic display case in a classroom used for workshops and field trips at the Nicholson Museum in Sydney.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art will return an ancient gilded coffin to Egypt after New York prosecutors determined that it had been looted from that country, the museum said.

The weapon is thought to have belonged to J.W. Milam, one of the two men who kidnapped, tortured and killed the Black teenager for whistling at a white woman in a grocery store in 1955 ...

The landmark discovery was made by experts at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge who examined a wooden coffin donated to it by archaeologists in 1907.

The coffin stands below the altar of the Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church, which is part of the prairie village on display at the museum. Visitors can walk out the back door of the main museum ...

Levi Coffin became known as the "President of the Underground Railroad," and every freedom seeker who passed through the home eventually made it to freedom, according to the Indiana State Museum.

Two Ohioans filed patents for devices to deter grave robbers in the late 19th century when robberies were on the rise to ...