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Egyptian artifacts are showcased at international museums across the Western world. If anyone was determined to see every ...

Genetic testing has ended a 20-year debate between a Native American tribe and the U.S. government over the origins of the world’s oldest natural mummy, which has now finally been laid to rest. The ...

Are these perfume descriptions? Not at all. These adjectives refer to a series of Egyptian mummies whose smells have been analyzed by an international team of researchers. The results were ...

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 earliest Egyptian mummies discovered by archaeologists date to around 3500 B.C., well before the Great Pyramid of Giza was built. Mummification was a sacred funeral rite for the ancient ...

This research marks the first time scientists have systematically studied the smells of mummies using both chemical instruments and trained human sniffers. The experts examined nine mummified bodies ...

However, you'd be forgiven for thinking these odours would not be agreeable. From the accounts of archaeologists to movies such as The Mummy (1999), mummified bodies are associated with foul smells.

But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually smell pretty good. “In films and books, terrible things happen to those ...

It is a good idea to leave them unpruned over winter: they provide food and shelter for wildlife and can look attractive even in decay, particularly when sprinkled with frost on cold mornings ...