An ancient Egyptian woman thought to have been pregnant and dying of cancer was actually just embalmed with a technique that ...

“Many people have sniffed mummies, of course,” says Matija Strlič, a professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Ljubljana and a professor of heritage science at University College London.

For centuries, ancient Egyptian mummies have been the most reliable crowd-pleasers in museums across Britain. London's British Museum alone holds over 100 mummies - bodies wrapped in linen and ...

The extraordinary care with which that Bashiri mummy was wrapped suggests this person was also of great importance in ancient Egyptian society. But the identity of the corpse remains unknown ...

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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 ...

The mummy, accompanied by Cross, Fitzgerald, Hickson and Austen, was finally flown to Cairo in a gilded crate on an Air Egypt flight on December 12. It is now in the possession of the Museum of Cairo.

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 ...

The stuff of dreams for any archaeologist, Piers Litherland and his team, working on a British-Egyptian excavation, might have stumbled upon the second tomb of King Thutmose II in the Western ...