If you have ever stood close to an ancient Egyptian mummy, you may remember a distinctive, lingering odor. For a long time, ...

Scientists have developed new methods to recreate perfumes used during the ancient Egyptian mummification process, an advance that could lead to multisensory museum experiences in the future. In ...

The headline takeaway is scale and sensitivity: the team reported identifying 81 distinct VOCs. Those compounds clustered into four main ingredient groups linked to ancient embalming practice - fats ...

Two Egyptian mummies underwent full-body computed tomography (CT) scans, which doctors today use to identify injuries and ...

The remarkable Roman Egypt-era work represents some the earliest realistic portrait paintings still in existence today.

Archaeologists bring 3,500-year-old fragrances used by ancient Egyptians back to life - Advance could lead to multisensory ...

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

Recent advances in biomolecular archaeology have revealed that ancient objects can retain the molecular fingerprints of past ...

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

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

As previously reported, Egyptian embalming is thought to have begun in the Predynastic Period or earlier, when people noticed that the arid desert heat tended to dry and preserve bodies buried in the ...