Active sampling with sorbent tubes of the air surrounding a mummified body from the New Kingdom at the exhibition area of the Egyptian museum in Cairo. Credit: Emma Paolin Smell was a key ...

Peter Horree/Alamy In February 2025, excited archaeologists unveiled perhaps the most important ancient Egyptian discovery since the tomb of Tutankhamun ... Most people are familiar with mummification ...

Gruesome details about the mummification process have been revealed by a fire chief involved in the Gene Hackman case. Brian Moya was speaking out following the death of Hackman and his wife Betsy.

But talking generally about the mummification process, the chief explained: “If somebody was down for a long time their hands could be blackened and stuff to that nature. They could have no eyes.

This mummy, on display at the Egyptian ... quality mummification practices. Mummies on display had higher concentrations of compounds carrying a scent, presumably because these compounds accumulate ...

What do ancient Egyptian mummies really smell like? A team of researchers set out to determine ... scientists could one day identify different mummification techniques or historical periods just by ...

After an identification process, Israel announced today that ... who is believed to have reigned around 1480 B.C. The Egyptian officials described the finding as the first excavation of a pharaoh ...

Thutmose II was the fourth ruler of the illustrious ancient Egyptian 18th dynasty, which included Tutankhamun. Now, the location of his long-lost tomb, one of the last missing royal tombs ...

The joint Egyptian-British mission found the tomb west of the Valley of the Kings, and it was the last lost tomb of the kings of Egypt's 18th dynasty. It is the first royal tomb discovered since ...

Researchers analyzed the volatile compounds emitted from nine mummies spanning nearly 2000 years of Egyptian history and found that the scents still lingering ... The team classified the identified ...

Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies smell ‘woody,’ ‘spicy’ and ‘sweet’, finds ... Smell was a key consideration for the ancient Egyptians during the mummification process, as pleasant odours were ...