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A 2,000-Year-Old Sarcophagus Was Just Unsealed—and the Mummy Inside is Mind-Blowing

created: May 18, 2025, 12:53 p.m. | updated: May 23, 2025, 12:52 p.m.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:Experts working in the Tomb of Cerberus in Giugliano, an area in Naples, unsealed a 2,000-year-old sarcophagus. Inside they found the remains of a shockingly well-preserved body lying face-up and covered in a shroud. Ongoing analysis of the contents of the sarcophagus could yield new social, cultural, and scientific insight into ancient life. After initially probing a 2,000-year-old sarcophagus in Naples with a micro camera, archaeologists were encouraged enough by what they saw to step inside this sealed tomb for the first time. But once they opened a passage inside the sarcophagus sealed shut for thousands of years, they were shocked by the condition of what they found.

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