Mummification was a sacred funeral rite for the ancient Egyptians, who believed that the body of the deceased needed to be preserved so that their spiritual essence could transcen ...

But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually ... more like a wine tasting than a mummy sniffing exercise.

A delicate operation to return an Egyptian mummy and a sarcophagus to Cairo ... A statement from UCC at the time said: "Testing done on the wrapping of the remains date it at around 305 BCE ...

To celebrate 30 years of collaboration between the Swiss Mummy Project (SMP) and its Egyptian partners, the Embassy of Switzerland in Egypt, in partnership with the University of Zurich ...

but they practically perfected the practice by wrapping and preserving millions of people and animals throughout the centuries. The earliest Egyptian mummies discovered by archaeologists date to ...

But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually ... more like a wine tasting than a mummy sniffing exercise.