“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.

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

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

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

Egyptian artifacts are therefore something special ... We know that because tufts of red hair still adhere to the scalp of his shriveled mummy on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

Lawmakers and campaigners in the United Kingdom are pushing for an end to the display of human remains in museums and the ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have found the tomb of King Thutmose II — the first discovery of an ancient royal tomb since King Tutankhamun's in 1922.

A new study led by researchers from UCL and the University of Ljubljana reveals that ancient Egyptian mummified bodies emit "woody," "spicy," and "sweet" scents, providing new insights into ...

Archaeologists uncover Thutmose II’s 3,500-year-old tomb, marking a groundbreaking discovery in Egypt’s Thebes region.

The extraordinary care with which that Bashiri mummy was wrapped suggests this person was also of great importance in ancient Egyptian society. But the identity of the corpse remains unknown ...

But that doesn’t make the discovery of his final resting place any less important. On February 18, the Egyptian government announced that an international team of archeologists have finally confirmed ...