Egyptian Sarcophagus Small 320×153 Medium 640×307 Large 1024×491 Download Tiff Original 2400×1150 | (809.5 KB) Description A coffin or tomb of stone; a kind of stone chest, generally more or less ornamented for receiving a dead body. The oldest known sarcophagi are Egyptian, and have been found in certain pyramids. Keywords coffin, coffins, Egypt, sarcophagus, tomb, tombs Galleries Egyptian Architecture Source: Logan Marshall, Ed. International Self-Pronouncing Reference Library (five vols.) (Philadelphia, PA: International Press, 1911)
