Old Egyptian Coffin Presumed ‘Empty’ Held Ancient 'Secret' Remains of a High Priestess Mummy Archaeologists explore the ...

A new, first-of-its-kind analysis of the scents of nine mummies detected woody, spicy, herbal and rancid notes, among other ...

Researchers are confident that this 'whiff' will help visitors truly understand the mummification process up close and ...

Scientists found that Egyptian mummies emit distinct “woody,” “spicy,” and “sweet” scents, revealing insights into their ...

the capital of Ancient Egypt and the site of modern day Luxor. Iyhat's coffin and our other inner mummy coffin of the Lady Tairy have been in Plymouth since 1919 - but only went on public display ...

A team of scientists who examined nine ancient Egyptian mummies, were shocked to find that these ancient corpses, still smell “good”, even after being entombed in a coffin for around 5000 years.

Most people know what an ancient Egyptian mummy looks like, but they probably can’t tell you about how they smell. You don’t have to wait to get up-close-and-personal to one in a museum to ...

As a professor at the American University in Cairo, she adopted the Egyptian Museum's languishing collection of animal mummies as a research project. After taking precise measurements, peering ...

Centuries after the first golden coffins were taken to Europe, ancient Egyptian mummies still vividly capture people’s imaginations. Perhaps we’re awed by the grandeur of their rituals and tradition.

This is the mummy of Hornedjitef an Egyptian priest who was buried in a coffin, within a second, outer coffin. Examining his body using CAT scans and X-rays revealed that he suffered from ...

Around 2,700 years ago in ancient Egypt, a man named Pakepu ... suggesting that the inner coffin served, like an earlier cartonnage mummy case, as the outermost layer of the mummy itself ...