Mummy aroma may provide insight into social class and historical period, according to a team of trained mummy sniffers ...

The exhibition of human remains is only allowed in 'essential' cases, and when displayed, they must be correctly documented and contextualized.

After discovering a trove of mummified crocodiles in Egypt, researchers noticed something unexpected—these reptiles had an ...

Displaying ancestral remains such as Egyptian mummies in museums is offensive, MPs have claimed. Members of the All-Party ...

Without sampling the mummies themselves ... which means that the environment in this museum, is actually quite good in terms of preservation.” Using technical instruments to measure and quantify ...

One museum visitor in Edinburgh was horrified to see stolen body parts belonging to his 19th century ancestors on display ...

Despite the clear and present danger of being cancelled, I have to fess up that I‘d never heard of the all-party ...

To catalog these scents, Strlič and colleagues visited Egypt to work with Abdelhalim and nine of the museum’s mummies. Their approach merged both traditional human sensory experience and ...

The research, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, involved sniffing nine mummies, some dating back 5,000 years, housed at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Instead of the ...

A new study led by researchers from UCL and the University of Ljubljana reveals that ancient Egyptian mummified bodies emit ...

For those who are curious, however, a new study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society has captured and analyzed the scents of nine human mummies in the museum’s collections ...

The British Museum houses an incredible collection of artefacts from Ancient Egypt, from the famed Rosetta Stone to an ...