Most visitors never experience the natural masterpieces that lie off the tourist trail—from bubbling hot springs to unearthly ...

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 scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.

Ancient Egypt is known for a great many things — pyramids, mummies, colorful gods and magic. But one of the least known of ...

Scientists have found that ancient Egyptian mummified bodies emit different types of aromas, offering new insights into the ...

"Both cultures placed deep emphasis on unity, spirituality, and the afterlife," Xue notes. "Egyptians imagined a glorious ...

Hatnefer's mummy and tomb contents ... The Book of the Dead passage engraved on the bottom of the scarab discusses the weighing of the heart. In ancient Egypt, the heart was considered the most ...

A mummified body, found within a crypt at St. Thomas am Blasenstein in Austria, has confounded researchers for centuries. The ...

Once destined for the afterlife, these ancient dead had become commercial goods, shipped to Europe where they were crushed ...

Dr Joann Fletcher enters the tomb of an ancient Egyptian architect called Kha. She travels to the Valley of the Kings to meet Steve Cross, who is an expert on tombs. Together they take a look at ...