Egyptian mummies have always been a subject of great interest, not only from researchers and scientists, but the general ...

People might claim that the Egyptian pyramids were built by ... to use their senses in the afterlife. Then, the mummies were placed in a coffin and the coffin was put in a special room in the ...

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

While the imagery bears a striking resemblance to the cartoon character, experts believe it depicts the woman buried in the coffin as she traveled to the afterlife. The Egyptian coffin contained ...

Many mummies are given a historical date based on their coffin style and decoration. The shape ... Instead of one unwavering tradition, Egyptian mummification was variable. The funerary rituals ...

CAIRO — Ancient Egyptian mummies don’t smell the way most people might expect. Instead of the musty odor often associated with old tombs and artifacts, many mummies give off surprisingly ...

On the other hand, while on the topic, the famous Egyptian mummies have always ... do you know that even after 5,000 year in sarcophagus (coffin), the mummies manage to smell nice; 'woody' or ...

Archaeologists in Saqqara make a dazzling discovery: a late period Egyptian coffin with a gilded mask. Now, to bring it to the surface, they use a pulley known as a "tambora," a technology that ...

The health status of people living in ancient times has remained under wraps—quite literally so in the case of Egyptian mummies. But thanks in part to developments in medical imaging ...

Two ancient Egyptian mummies have made an intrepid visit to Manchester for a state-of-the-art radiographic ... A re-examination of the hieroglyphic texts on the coffin and mummy wrappings was ...

The topics in this series were developed by <strong>New Scientist</strong> in association with the <strong>Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences</strong> in Sydney ...

The first "artificial" Egyptian mummies were made around 3000 B.C. These early efforts at embalming were crude, but reflected the culture's emerging beliefs about preserving the dead to achieve ...