A new study debunks the long-held mystery that an ancient Egyptian mummy, known as the "Mysterious Lady," was pregnant or had ...

An ancient Egyptian woman thought to have been pregnant and dying of cancer was actually just embalmed with a technique that ...

Live Science reports that an international team of researchers has finally resolved the mystery surrounding a controversial ...

Egyptian mummies have long been a subject of fascination ... Through chemical analysis and a panel of real human sniffers, the researchers from University College London and the University of ...

“Many people have sniffed mummies, of course,” says Matija Strlič, a professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Ljubljana and a professor of heritage science at University College London.

The market for fake mummies highlighted the fact that the supply of real Egyptian mummies could not meet the demand for dead ...

Displaying Egyptian mummies and other human remains in museums and universities should be banned as it may offend the 'wishes of the ancestors', MPs have claimed. The all-party Parliamentary Group ...

The earliest Egyptian mummies discovered by archaeologists date to around 3500 B.C., well before the Great Pyramid of Giza was built. Mummification was a sacred funeral rite for the ancient ...

One museum visitor in Edinburgh was horrified to see stolen body parts belonging to his 19th century ancestors on display ...

Unwrapping the Scent of a Mummy Researchers from the University College London and University of Ljubljana, working with conservators and curators at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, deployed a variety ...

Are these perfume descriptions? Not at all. These adjectives refer to a series of Egyptian mummies whose smells have been analyzed by an international team of researchers. The results were ...