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

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

The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to ...

Researchers studying ancient mummies were able to determine the odors of them. The team assessed smells of the mummies at a ...

According to a new study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, musty crypts and the decayed remains of ...

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

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 ...

Egyptian artifacts, dinosaur fossils and taxidermy mounts headline eccentric items at the SkullStore Oddity Shop and ...

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

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 ...

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