Mummy aroma may provide insight into social class and historical period, according to a team of trained mummy sniffers ...
“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.
A recent international study led by archaeologist Kamila Braulińska from the University of Warsaw challenged previous claims ...
Niğde governor Cahit Celik praised the mummy’s recovery in a statement given to local Turkish news outlets while thanking ...
The Guanche mummy was an adult male, approximately 1.62 meters tall, lying supine with long hands on his thighs. It consists of the mummified remains of one of the ancient inhabitants of the ...
“It tells us potentially what social class a mummy was from and and therefore reveals a lot of information about the mummified body that is relevant not just to conservators, but to curators and ...
Lawmakers and campaigners in the United Kingdom are pushing for an end to the display of human remains in museums and the ...
Disturbing details about Hackman and Arakawa's deaths came to light hours after the news first broke.
One museum visitor in Edinburgh was horrified to see stolen body parts belonging to his 19th century ancestors on display ...
Visitors to the National Archaeological Museum (MAN) in Madrid will no longer be able to admire the Guanche mummy that had been on display since December 2015 in the area dedicated to the Canary ...