No archaeologist dares to open a 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummy, fearing the loss of a one-of-a-kind burial method.

A new study debunks the long-held mystery that an ancient Egyptian mummy, known as the "Mysterious Lady," was pregnant or had ...

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 ...

“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.

Researchers are smelling ancient Egyptian mummies in hopes of shedding light ... its mysterious space plane I’ve studied over 200 kids—the highly successful ones have parents who did 9 things ...

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 ...

Even after 5,000 years in a sarcophagus, mummified bodies from ancient Egypt still smell quite nice, scientists have discovered. Researchers who examined nine mummies found that though there was ...

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 ...

Along with a tomb replica, the museum's many sarcophagi and mummies ... 10 for kids ages 7 to 17, seniors and students with a school ID. For more information, check out the Rosicrucian Egyptian ...