“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.

Mummy aroma may provide insight into social class and historical period, according to a team of trained mummy sniffers ...

A new study challenges previous claims about the "Mysterious Lady" mummy, raising questions about how ancient remains are ...

An ancient Egyptian woman thought to have been pregnant and dying of cancer was actually just embalmed with a technique that mimicked these diagnoses, researchers have concluded, settling a four-year ...

On the other hand, while on the topic, the famous Egyptian mummies have always been a topic of intense interest, having been featured in many movies too. These mummies were bodies that were ...

These include an electronic “nose” and trained human experts, who analyzed the scents of nine ancient Egyptian mummies. The findings shed light on the materials and methods used in mummification, how ...

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Egypt's Valley of the Kings is part of a massive ... probably when priests relocated and reburied the king's mummy to protect it from flooding about 500 years after his death, Litherland says.

What do ancient Egyptian mummies really smell like? A team of researchers set out to determine whether their modern-day scent still reflects the embalming materials used in antiquity – and what ...

This mummy, on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, was scientifically sniffed to reveal insights into how it was preserved thousands of years ago. Credit: Adapted from the Journal of the American ...

One incredibly well-preserved 5,600-year-old mummy is now upending much of what we thought we knew about Ancient Egyptian embalming. A new study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science ...