In 2019, while excavating the necropolis of Qubbet el Hawa, across the Nile from Aswan in southern Egypt, Belgian and Spanish archaeologists unearthed a trove of mummified crocodiles: five almost ...
Mummy aroma may provide insight into social class and historical period, according to a team of trained mummy sniffers ...
The king's mummy and sarcophagus are missing from the royal tomb, which is the second of its kind unearthed this year ...
Forget the horror movies – the scent of ancient Egyptian mummies is surprisingly pleasant, according to researchers. A new study, blending scientific analysis with the power of the human nose ...
CAIRO — Ancient Egyptian mummies don’t smell the way most people might expect. Instead of the musty odor often associated with old tombs and artifacts, many mummies give off surprisingly ...
Even after 5,000 years in a sarcophagus, mummified bodies from ancient Egypt still smell quite nice, scientists have discovered. Researchers who examined nine mummies found that though there was ...
An ancient Egyptian woman thought to have been pregnant and dying of cancer was actually just embalmed with a technique that ...