Archaeologists toiling on two separate sites in Egypt have stumbled on a pair of remarkable finds of historic proportions — ...

Ancient Egypt produced an enormous number of mummies over more than 3,000 years, yet only a tiny fraction remain today. One ...

Animal mummification in ancient Egypt was a carefully organized practice that connected spiritual beliefs with economic activity. This wasn’t a rare or occasional ritual but a large, sustained ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered 13 ancient mummies with gold tongues and nails in a cemetery at the site of Oxyrhynchus. Egyptian mummy has part of the 'Iliad' in its abdomen, archaeologists ...

Beneath the farmland of Minya governorate in central Egypt, a team of archaeologists recently opened a cluster of sealed ...

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A research team from the University of Ljubljana and the Egyptian Museum of Cairo is a winner of the 2025 Gizmodo Science Fair for reproducing the smell of mummies, offering a new window into Ancient ...

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Here’s a question you’ve probably never thought of: What do Egyptian mummies smell like? An international team of researchers has a surprising answer: woody, spicy, and sweet (but if you’re ...