Egyptian mummies are historically important and a popular source of interest for people even today. These mummies provide ...

Now, groundbreaking research published in the Journal of Cultural Heritage has finally unraveled the chemical mystery behind this extraordinary preservation phenomenon. The teenage boy's remains, ...

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

Some of the recent advances in the quest to catch a whiff of history are featured in the new book Scents of Arabia: ...

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 ...

Exceptionally preserved “dinosaur mummies” of the duck-billed Edmontosaurus have unveiled the first-known reptile hooves, ...

Wyoming’s “dinosaur mummies,” once thought to preserve fossilized flesh, are actually detailed clay molds formed by microbes ...

But Putnam Museum officials want desperately to know more about the beloved female mummy — believed to be 3,000 years old — which is a longtime part of the collection there, and another, unnamed mummy ...

A pair of Edmontosaurus specimens found in a Wyoming dig help researchers to understand the process that led them to be ...

The skeletons of the duck-billed dinosaurs, Edmontosaurus Annectens – which lived more than 66 million years ago in the late ...

New research in a North American “mummy zone” in eastern Wyoming reveals how giant duck-billed dinosaurs were preserved in ...