According to the researchers who have worked with them, not all that bad. They’ve used descriptors like woody, spicy, and ...

Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt," on display through Sept. 13, includes 36 mummified animals among its 100 artifacts.

The headline takeaway is scale and sensitivity: the team reported identifying 81 distinct VOCs. Those compounds clustered into four main ingredient groups linked to ancient embalming practice - fats ...

Researchers at the University of Southern California recently used high-resolution CT scanners and medical-grade 3-D printers to conduct virtual autopsies on the two Egyptian mummies. Their goal, as ...

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 ...

Using advanced CT imaging, the team has discovered new details about the mummies’ health, lifestyles and humanity.

Centuries after they were painstakingly prepared for death, mummies still produce an odour described as woody, spicy and sweet. But unfortunately for the Egyptians, who believed a 'good' smell after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While Egyptian kings and queens are the most famous examples of mummification, the practice wasn’t just for pharaohs. It expanded ...

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 ...

LAHUN, Egypt (Reuters) - Archaeologists have unearthed a cache of pharaonic-era mummies in brightly painted wooden coffins near Egypt's little-known Lahun pyramid, the site head said on Sunday. The ...