Few visitors wandering through the mummy galleries at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo have the opportunity—or perhaps the inclination—to smell the aromas wafting off the gilded sarcophagi and elaborately ...

X-ray scans answer 3,000-year-old mystery of Egyptian ‘locked mummy’ - Scans reveal ancient Egyptian aristocrat was as in her ...

We know what they look like, and even sound like, but there’s one question you might not have pondered: what do ancient Egyptian mummies smell like? Whether you wanted to know or not, scientists have ...

LONDON — At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies ...

At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually ...

When we think of mummies, we tend to imagine embalmed pharaohs, massive pyramids and buried treasure in Ancient Egypt. That was before we learned of the smoked mummies of Southeast Asia, which are ...

PART 1: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF MUMMIES -- The Background of the Manchester Mummy Project / ROSALIE DAVID -- Egyptian Mummies: An Overview / ROSALIE DAVID -- PART 2: DIET, DISEASE ...

The bodies were arranged into crouched positions, then propped over or placed near a fire to slowly dehydrate. Australian National University New research suggests the world’s oldest mummies aren’t ...