Thousands of years later, embalmed bodies still retain their scents. An international team of researchers has studied them to ...

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

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 ...

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

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

With help from some perfumers, we brought back smells such as 17th-century Amsterdam, with its canals and linden trees. As a ...

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

On view through May 18, the show pairs drawings from Soane’s collection with works by celebrated Modernists including Le ...

The hidden tomb of a ‘brutal’ Egyptian pharaoh has been discovered 3,500 years since his death. Archaeologists revealed the ...

How do you create an exhibition geared specifically for children? This is the question that preoccupies curators at east London’s Young V&A, where the second temporary exhibition since the 2023 revamp ...

The burial chamber at the bottom contained the sarcophagus and canopic chest of ... It was moved to the Cairo Museum, and a copy was placed in the original location. The mastaba of the Sixth ...