STORY: You might think that a mummified corpse would have a fairly unpleasant stink. But according to scientists researching what ancient Egyptian mummies smell like, you'd be wrong. They emit woody, ...
A research team from the University of Ljubljana and the Egyptian Museum of Cairo is a winner of the 2025 Gizmodo Science Fair for reproducing the smell of mummies, offering a new window into Ancient ...
Some of the recent advances in the quest to catch a whiff of history are featured in the new book Scents of Arabia: ...
Old friends, new tales : the mummies and coffins of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science / Michele L. Koons -- A history of research and exploring new narratives : contextualizing the Denver Museum ...
Ancient Egyptians were serious cat people, if a discovery in a tomb near Cairo is any indication. On Saturday, Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities announced that a team of archaeologists had uncovered ...
DONALDSON TAKES A LOOK INSIDE. THE MOST COMMON TYPE OF ARTIFACT FOUND IN EXCAVATIONS IN ANCIENT EGYPT IS ACTUALLY MUMMIFIED ANIMALS. THERE WERE 7 MILLION DOGS THAT WERE MUMMIFIED, FOUND SO FAR, 4 ...
"An appropriate ornament of the operating room" : Padihershef and the beginnings of mummymania in nineteenth-century America -- "As cheap as candidates for the presidency" : Egyptian mummies in early ...
During the third millennium B.C.E., a man was buried in a sealed ceramic pot in the Egyptian village of Nuwayrat. Now, using one of his teeth, researchers have sequenced his DNA. Their analysis, which ...
CAIRO, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Egyptian archaeologists have found about 30 mummies and at least one unopened sarcophagus in a burial chamber about 4,300 years old, the government said in a statement on ...
Egypt recovered 36 ancient artifacts from the United States that had been smuggled out of the country, authorities announced ...