An ancient Egyptian woman thought to have been pregnant and dying of cancer was actually just embalmed with a technique that ...
Mummy aroma may provide insight into social class and historical period, according to a team of trained mummy sniffers ...
“Many people have sniffed mummies, of course,” says Matija Strlič, a professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Ljubljana and a professor of heritage science at University College London.
One museum visitor in Edinburgh was horrified to see stolen body parts belonging to his 19th century ancestors on display ...
The mummy of a first-century-B.C. individual found in Egypt was not pregnant and did not have cancer, according to a new CT study.
After discovering a trove of mummified crocodiles in Egypt, researchers noticed something unexpected—these reptiles had an ...
Displaying Egyptian mummies and other human remains in museums and universities should be banned as it may offend the 'wishes of the ancestors', MPs have claimed. The all-party Parliamentary Group ...
A debate about a mysterious 'mummy' has raged for years, with experts stumped trying to work out what the little bumps inside ...
A recent international study led by archaeologist Kamila Braulińska from the University of Warsaw challenged previous claims ...