The word "mummy" instantly takes us into the mystical world of ancient Egypt, a civilization full of secrets and fascinating ...

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

Mummies can be dried in the sun ... The heart, believed to be the source of thought, was left inside the body. After the organs were removed, the body was rinsed with wine, which helped to ...

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 ...

Researchers who examined nine mummies found that though there was ... a mummy's whiff - and help to tell when the bodies inside may be starting to rot. "We want to share the experience we had ...

Displaying Egyptian mummies and other human remains in museums and universities should be banned as it may offend the 'wishes of the ancestors', MPs have claimed. The all-party Parliamentary Group ...

Are these perfume descriptions? Not at all. These adjectives refer to a series of Egyptian mummies whose smells have been analyzed by an international team of researchers. The results were ...

Using a combination of high-tech tools like an electronic ‘nose’ and trained human sniffers, they studied nine mummies on display and in storage at Cairo's Egyptian Museum. The results ...