Archaeologists in Saqqara make a dazzling discovery: a late period Egyptian coffin with a gilded mask. Now, to bring it to the surface, they use a pulley known as a "tambora," a technology that ...

While looking at the provenance documents for the 3,000-year-old Egyptian child’s coffin in their collection, staff at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston began to realise things did not quite add up.