Even after 5,000 years in a sarcophagus, mummified bodies from ancient Egypt still smell quite nice, scientists have ...
Hamilton was a trustee for the British Museum and under that guise ... Interestingly, Hamilton had also acquired the sarcophagus of Pa-ba-sa, an Egyptian noble in the reign of Psamtik I ...
A new, first-of-its-kind analysis of the scents of nine mummies detected woody, spicy, herbal and rancid notes, among other ...
Now displayed vertically, this huge piece of carved granite is the sarcophagus lid of Ramesses III. This effigy of the king shows him in the form of an Egyptian ... BBC or the British Museum.
Researchers who sniffed mummified remains in the name of science were greeted more with a blessing than a curse.
A delicate operation to return an Egyptian mummy and a sarcophagus to Cairo cost University College Cork more than €34,000.