Among the most fascinating mummies discovered outside of Egypt is a tattooed ice mummy found at Ukok Plateau near the border ...

The Egyptian Empire was one of the most powerful in the world in its day, thanks in no small part to a host of inventions.

Ancient Egyptian Sarcophagus in Museum. (Representative Image Source: Pexels | hayriyenur) Through chemical analysis and a panel of real human sniffers, the researchers from University College London ...

Ancient mummies in Egypt have a smell that was not anticipated by scientists but indicates crucial information about its history.

Are these perfume descriptions? Not at all. These adjectives refer to a series of Egyptian mummies whose smells have been analyzed by an international team of researchers. The results were ...

a “key religious text associated with royal tombs of ancient Egypt,” the tourism ministry said. Thutmose II's mummy was discovered in 1881 in Al-Deir El-Bahari Cache. It is believed to have ...

The unearthing of the long-lost tomb of ancient Egyptian King Thutmose II is being described as one of the most important archaeological discoveries in recent years. Thutmose II's mummy was ...

Ancient Egyptian mummies mostly smelled "woody,""spicy" and "sweet," according to research published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society on Thursday. Researchers analysed nine mummified ...

We now know what ancient Egyptian mummies smell like, thanks to new research that deployed a team of trained 'sniffers'. And it turns out that despite being about 5,000 years old, they actually ...

Using a combination of high-tech tools like an electronic ‘nose’ and trained human sniffers, they studied nine mummies on display and in storage at Cairo's Egyptian Museum. The results ...

The scent of ancient Egyptian mummies has been unlocked thanks to pioneering smell analysis. We hear from UCL’s Dr Cecilia Bembibre about the research conducted on nine mummified bodies that ...