Few visitors wandering through the mummy galleries at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo have the opportunity—or perhaps the ...

The team’s approach could inspire museums to entertain visitors with odorous features such as smellscapes. In fact, the ...

Even around 5,000 years after their embalming, Strlič and collaborators described the bodies as smelling “pleasant.” This is ...

Learn how unpacking olfactory elements helps researchers understand mummy preservation techniques, and how you could one day ...

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

A new study has revealed what ancient Egyptian mummies smell like – and the results might surprise you. Researchers from UCL ...

In the hushed halls of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the air isn’t just thick with history. A new study has for the first ...

2,000 year old mummies have been unearthed as more than a dozen found with rare tongues made from golden amulets.

A new study has revealed what ancient Egyptian mummies smell like – and the results might surprise you. Researchers from UCL and the University of Ljubljana looked into details about ...

A crumb of bread entombed thousands of years ago alongside an ancient Egyptian mummy has been discovered among a collection ...

Researchers are using lasers to uncover highly intricate designs of ancient tattoos on the mummies from Peru. It is not clear how the tattoos were created, but they are “of a quality that stands ...