Researchers who sniffed mummified remains in the name of science were greeted more with a blessing than a curse.

Even after 5,000 years in a sarcophagus, mummified bodies from ancient Egypt still smell quite nice, scientists have ...

Explore the surprising scents of ancient Egyptian mummies, revealing woody and sweet notes that defy expectations.

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

Scientists used an 'electronic nose' (and good old biological sniffers) to reveal the scents of ancient mummies.

Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies smell 'woody,' 'spicy' and 'sweet', finds a new study led by researchers from UCL and the ...

Making history palatable for schoolchildren isn’t easy – but the work that’s gone into this imaginative show on ancient Egypt ...

When we see objects in museum display cases, it often doesn't tell their whole story. One thing that tends to get ignored or even lost in the conserv ...

Alex Flood/TorontoToday Avid collectors looking to make their next big purchase can buy a human child skull (hydrocephalic) ...

A delicate operation to return an Egyptian mummy and a sarcophagus to Cairo cost University College Cork more than €34,000.

Emma Paolin, PhD student at University of Ljubljana, and prof. dr. Abdelrazek Elnaggar, University of Ljubljana and Ain Shams University in Egypt, sampling the within a sarcophagus in the exhibition ...