Inside Ancient Egypt is an up-close look at the daily lives of ancient Egyptians—as well as how they thought about death. Enter through a three-story replica of a mastaba, a type of ancient Egyptian ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a rare burial chamber where several mummies were interred with thin gold foils in ...

The exhibition also includes more recent archaeological discoveries from Saqqara – the necropolis of the ancient capital Memphis. Think everything from monumental statues and mummy coffins, to death ...

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 time systematically studied the smell of ancient Egyptian mummies. These ...

STORY: You might think that a mummified corpse would have a fairly unpleasant stink. But according to scientists researching what ancient Egyptian mummies smell like, you'd be wrong. They emit woody, ...

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

November 2025 marks 100 years since archaeologists first examined Tutankhamun 's mummified remains. What followed wasn't ...

A new study underscores the ubiquity of pleasant smells attached to commonly displayed objects, like sarcophagi and wrappings used in mummified remains. Unknown artist, “Mesu Smelling a Lotus” (c.

Another common misconception about ancient Egypt thanks to Hollywood is that all Egyptians were mummified and placed in ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Animal mummification in ancient Egypt was a carefully organized practice that connected spiritual beliefs with economic activity. This wasn’t a rare or occasional ritual but a large, sustained ...