Researchers who sniffed mummified remains in the name of science were greeted more with a blessing than a curse.

A new study has revealed what ancient Egyptian mummies smell like – and the results might surprise you. Researchers from UCL and the University of Ljubljana looked into details about ...

Archaeologists discovered more than a dozen mummies older than 2,000 years with tongues made from golden amulets. Ancient Egyptians’ idea behind the golden tongues was that they would help the ...

Cats then traveled to Europe, Africa, and Asia. But that's only half the story. Most Egyptian cat mummies carry another lybica subtype, type C. The oldest remains of this type date back to about ...

A crumb of bread entombed thousands of years ago alongside an ancient Egyptian mummy has been discovered among a collection of previously uncatalogued items. The microscopic morsel was unearthed ...

ELLIOT SMITH and Mr. Warren Dawson have written a very interesting and useful book on mummies, which appears ... of the history of the practice in Egypt which, being written by the chief authority ...

This mummy mask is coated in gold leaf. It is a mask for a rich ancient Egyptian. This mask was put on top of a mummy's bandages to protect the head. This is a blue glazed shabti figure of a ...

stating that the Egyptian mummy secured for Cornell University by that gentleman would leave Cairo for Liverpool en route ... View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

The oldest known tattoos were found on remains of a Neolithic man who lived in the Italian Alps around 3,000 B.C. Many mummies from ancient Egypt also have tattoos, as do remains from cultures ...

Yet the cinematic depiction of Western archaeologists disturbing the tomb of an ancient Egyptian mummy and inadvertently resurrecting it into a monster would seldom have an accurate representation of ...