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 ...

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 ...

Dead bodies aren’t typically known for smelling good, but according to a new study, the carefully embalmed bodies of ancient Egyptian mummies are an exception ... Though they initially planned only to ...

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 ...

“We want to share the experience of smelling a mummy. That’s why we are recreating the smell in a lab and present our findings at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo,” said Cecilia ...

The stuff of dreams for any archaeologist, Piers Litherland and his team, working on a British-Egyptian excavation, might have stumbled upon the second tomb of King Thutmose II in the Western ...

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.

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