A team of archaeologists has found a piece of a long-lost sarcophagus belonging to ancient Egypt’s most powerful pharaoh, more than 3,000 years after his death.

Scientists re-examined the granite artifact that was found in 2009 inside a Coptic building in Abydos, an ancient city in east-central Egypt.

The research team was led by archaeologists Ayman Al-Damrani and Kevin Cahill, and they concluded that the coffin carried two people at different times.

The research team was able to identify Menkheperre, the “high priest of the Twenty-First Dynasty” who lived in 1000 BC, according to a translated statement from the French National Center for Scientific Research.
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