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 ...

According to a ProPublica report, the Carlos Museum has made 100% of its Native American remains — amounting to two ...

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 ...

Scientists have made a rare discovery inside a rare discovery. Researchers with the Warsaw Mummy Project have been studying ancient Egyptian remains since 2015 and recently used cutting-edge computer ...

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 ...

While Egyptian kings and queens are the most famous examples of mummification, the practice wasn’t just for pharaohs. It expanded over time until everyone from the poor up were being preserved for ...