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The Budapest History Museum found a 1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus during an excavation within the city. The coffin was still fully sealed, untouched by looters for centuries. The sarcophagus was ...

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A woman in Thailand who was found alive in her coffin at a Buddhist temple was saved from organ donation and cremation because her brother didn't have a death certificate. Wat Rat Prakhong Tham, a ...

A woman in Thailand shocked temple staff when she started moving in her coffin after being brought in for cremation. Wat Rat Prakhong Tham, a Buddhist temple in the province of Nonthaburi on the ...

A woman in Thailand shocked temple staff when she started moving in her coffin after being brought in for cremation. Wat Rat Prakhong Tham, a Buddhist temple in the province of Nonthaburi on the ...

A 65-year-old Thai woman was discovered alive in her coffin just as cremation rituals were about to begin at a temple in Nonthaburi on the outskirts of Bangkok. Temple workers at Wat Rat Prakongtham, ...

"Everyone was startled" said Pairat Soodthoop, a manager at the Wat Rat Prakhong Tham Buddhist temple Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working in ...