Archaeologists uncover 59 sealed mummy coffins at Saqqara, Egypt, many believed to hold the remains of ancient priests. This ...

Doctors used CT scans to study ancient Egyptian mummies, uncovering injuries, aging, and personal details without disturbing ...

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After Napoleon’s Egypt campaign, the European bourgeoisie became fascinated by pyramids, hieroglyphs and mummies. The latter were shipped to Europe by the thousands, despite laws prohibiting the trade ...

The team then developed two ways to present ancient scents to the public. Alongside the artifacts that inspired this project, ...

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The first known pregnant mummy revealed a fetus preserved inside the womb for over 2,000 years. New research explains how chemical processes during mummification dissolved the fetal bones and why ...

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In a new paper in Science, experts from the University of Chicago describe steps that took place some 66 million years ago to transform the carcasses of a duck-billed dinosaur, Edmontosaurus annectens ...

Scents from the past are being recreated using state of the art technology to give museum visitors a whiff of Egyptian history.

Advances in the field have shown that ancient objects can retain the "molecular fingerprints" of past aromatic practices.

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.