Egyptian mummies are historically important and a popular source of interest for people even today. These mummies provide information to archeologists and researchers about the culture and common ...

CAIRO, Egypt -- Ancient mummies of Egypt's royal pharaohs will emerge from their resting places this weekend and parade through the streets of Cairo in search of a new home. What sounds like the plot ...

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

The cemetery at Al Bahnasa, Egypt has offered up new and unique findings in a dig overseen by Spanish archaeologists. Mayte Mascorro and Esther Pons Melado of the University of Barcelona and the ...

Mummification was a sacred ritual of the ancient Egyptians, who called their mummified dead “noble ones.” But when mummies started showing up as supernatural archfiends in Victorian horror novels and ...

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

We know what they look like, and even sound like, but there’s one question you might not have pondered: what do ancient Egyptian mummies smell like? Whether you wanted to know or not, scientists have ...

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 ...

Have you ever wondered what a mummy smells like? According to research reported in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, it’s “woody,” “spicy,” and even “sweet.” Researchers analyzed the ...

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, ...