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Tours to view the shed and the sarcophagus, about 10 minutes outside town, are offered separately by the caretaker during festival times.

Few know that it stands guard over a sarcophagus about the size of a person, buried just a few feet beneath the ground.

Experts last found such a sarcophagus about a half a century ago in Deir al Balah, in the Gaza Strip, where 50 similar coffins were dug up, mostly by grave robbers, Van den Brink said.

The archaeologists first uncovered the foot of the sarcophagus and took about three weeks to work their way along the coffin.

By contrast, Angelika Kauffman's broadly contemporary picture, "Cleopatra Adorning Mark Anthony's Sarcophagus," is about light and shadow effects.

The lead sarcophagus, weighing about 450 kg, was found during last summer's dig and is thought to date from the second to the fourth centuries AD.

Scattered about are sarcophagi and the disembodied head of a nurse.

"The father used the child's sarcophagus to tell about himself," Ms. Udell said.

"The West is giving all this money for a new sarcophagus, but what about us?

The limestone sarcophagus was unearthed about a mile southeast of the Sphinx on the Giza plateau, Zahi Hawass said.

The first, a mythological scene, is large for a sarcophagus — it measures about 3 feet by 6 feet — and its composition is quite dramatic.