No archaeologist dares to open a 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummy, fearing the loss of a one-of-a-kind burial method.

Mummy aroma may provide insight into social class and historical period, according to a team of trained mummy sniffers ...

The king's mummy and sarcophagus are missing from the royal tomb, which is the second of its kind unearthed this year ...

The tomb of Pharaoh Thutmose II is the first royal crypt discovered in recent years, and scientists have new powerful tools to analyze it.

In a new study, a team of researchers analyzed the scents of nine human mummies as old as 5,000 years from the collections at the Egyptian Museum ... span from the New Kingdom in the second ...

CAIRO — Ancient Egyptian mummies don’t smell the way most people ... dry desert sand. By the Old Kingdom (2700-2200 BCE), embalmers began using natron – a natural mixture of sodium carbonate ...

“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 mummy of a first-century-B.C. individual found in Egypt was not pregnant and did not have cancer, according to a new CT study.

Displaying Egyptian mummies and other human remains ... plaques featuring sculptures of humans and animals, taken from the ancient Kingdom of Benin. The British Museum alone currently owns 900 ...

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

The "Mysterious Lady" mummy viewed in a mixed-reality system reveals different aspects of the inside of her body. | Credit: Ł. Kownacki An ancient Egyptian woman thought to have been pregnant and ...