Few visitors wandering through the mummy galleries at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo have the opportunity—or perhaps the inclination—to smell the aromas wafting off the gilded sarcophagi and elaborately ...

The exhibition also includes more recent archaeological discoveries from Saqqara – the necropolis of the ancient capital ...

Inside Ancient Egypt is an up-close look at the daily lives of ancient Egyptians—as well as how they thought about death. Enter through a three-story replica of a mastaba, a type of ancient Egyptian ...

We know what they look like, and even sound like, but there’s one question you might not have pondered: what do ancient Egyptian mummies smell like? Whether you wanted to know or not, scientists have ...

History fascinates the world and is crucial for understanding it as well, so we look at which is the most expensive house of ...

Uncovering mummies is a sure way to prompt Ancient Egyptian curses that might be true, which explains why the Bashiri mummy has remained undisturbed for more than two millennia. This mysterious ...

At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually ...

LONDON — At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies ...

This led to an ongoing Egyptological investigation of the mysterious journey taken by Ankh-Hap from ancient Egypt to modern America.

The bodies were arranged into crouched positions, then propped over or placed near a fire to slowly dehydrate. Australian National University New research suggests the world’s oldest mummies aren’t ...