The so-called Bashiri mummy, nicknamed "The Untouchable", holds a unique place in modern Egyptology. Discovered in 1919 in ...

Called simply “Mummies” and running in the museum’s top-floor temporary exhibition spaces until May next year, the exhibition ...

We know what they look like, and even sound like, but there’s one question you might not have pondered: what do ancient Egyptian mummies smell like? Whether you wanted to know or not, scientists have ...

LONDON — At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies ...

Over a century ago, an ancient Egyptian mummy adorned with a golden mask, having slept for 3,000 years, was unearthed, ...

It effectively allows visitors to virtually peel back the layers of history through interactive 3D visualisations of the CT scans. Three-dimensional images of six mummies aged between 900BC and ...

At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually ...

An Egyptian mummy reveals that the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa thousands of years before the Black Death terrorized Europe. Researchers analyzed an Egyptian mummy from a museum in Turin, ...

While Egyptian kings and queens are the most famous examples of mummification, the practice wasn’t just for pharaohs. It expanded over time until everyone from the poor up were being preserved for ...

The bodies were arranged into crouched positions, then propped over or placed near a fire to slowly dehydrate. Australian National University New research suggests the world’s oldest mummies aren’t ...