The Egyptian black sarcophagus might not presage a rain of 1,000 years of unholy fire.

Nobody knows what's inside a sinister black granite sarcophagus recently discovered in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, says the country's Antiquities Ministry but it's probably nothing.

The object nearly nine feet long is about 2,000 years old, Smithsonian explains, and a layer of mortar between its lid and the main body indicates that it was not opened at this moment. Experts say that being buried during this long time "might or might not" have enraged an internally buried deity, animating a horrible fuel of vindictive rage that could destroy life on Earth as we know it.

An Egyptian official named Dr. Ayman Ashmawy says that the sarcophagus, discovered during a routine excavation related to a construction project, was found five meters underground. "And we can curse the day he was disturbed by his rest," he may have said in his breath afterwards.

An alabaster head was found in the same grave:

His pale, eyeless face may well be the last something you see.

Or maybe not!