In 1872, two British men took three artifacts from the Great Pyramid of Giza. These are the only known items ever removed ...

History is full of surprises, and some discoveries challenge everything we thought we knew about ancient civilizations. The ...

Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies smell 'woody,' 'spicy' and 'sweet', finds a new study led by researchers from UCL and the ...

Scientists used an 'electronic nose' (and good old biological sniffers) to reveal the scents of ancient mummies.

We know what they look like, and even sound like, but there’s one question you might not have pondered: what do ancient ...

Egyptian artifacts, dinosaur fossils and taxidermy mounts headline eccentric items at the SkullStore Oddity Shop and ...

A study reveals that ancient Egyptian mummies emit woody, spicy and sweet scents, likely from embalming materials like myrrh, ...

The artifacts, which included amulets and a sculpture, smelled like earth when they spilled out of his suitcases, according ...

Archaeologists in Egypt are working to restore the Ramesseum, a temple belonging to Ramesses II, an Old Testament pharaoh ...

While still a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient ...

Archaeologists have uncovered ancient tombs with artifacts in Israel's Negev Desert revealing trade connections with distant civilizations.

A Brooklyn man admitted to smuggling hundreds of Egyptian artifacts into the United States, many of them so freshly excavated they still smelled of wet earth when customs officials found them in ...