An ancient Egyptian woman thought to have been pregnant and dying of cancer was actually just embalmed with a technique that ...

Egyptologists are hopeful that ongoing investigations using non-invasive techniques may finally uncover the identity of the ...

Mummy aroma may provide insight into social class and historical period, according to a team of trained mummy sniffers ...

After discovering a trove of mummified crocodiles in Egypt, researchers noticed something unexpected—these reptiles had an ...

A debate about a mysterious 'mummy' has raged for years, with experts stumped trying to work out what the little bumps inside ...

POLICE have uncovered a creepy well-preserved mummy hidden in an alleged smuggler’s house after a shock raid. The mummy is ...

The extraordinary care with which that Bashiri mummy was wrapped suggests this person was also of great importance in ancient Egyptian society. But the identity of the corpse remains unknown ...

The tomb of Pharaoh Thutmose II is the first royal crypt discovered in recent years, and scientists have new powerful tools ...

But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually smell pretty good. “In films and books, terrible things happen to those ...

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 some ...

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 ...

One museum visitor in Edinburgh was horrified to see stolen body parts belonging to his 19th century ancestors on display ...