2,500-year-old mummy found in 'empty' coffin

SYDNEY - Staff at the University of Sydney's Nicholson Museum in Australia discovered a 2,500-year-old Egyptian mummy inside a coffin that was thought to be empty.

The coffin was originally bought from an antiquity market in Egypt in 1858 by Sir Charles Nicholson, one of the first chancellors at the university, said archaeologist and investigation lead Jamie Fraser.

"One of the curators in 1940 published a catalog saying that the coffin was empty so we had this perceived wisdom that there wasn't very much there," Fraser said.