Night’s Mirror from the Owl series, the biggest piece on show, depicts a brown owl, in a long body, with its wide eyes and ...

A 3,500-year-old cemetery in Egypt has yielded a remarkably preserved Book of the Dead scroll.

The German pharmaceutical advertised, "Genuine Egyptian mummy as long as the supply lasts, 17 marks 50 per kilogram." Rich old Europeans didn't actually eat up all the mummies.

Sarcophagus lids, a Greco-Roman portrait and fragments of what is believed to be a temple of Queen Hatshepsut were among 25 rare artifacts returned to Egypt from the United States, the Egyptian ...

The announcement of the first-ever pregnant mummy caused a stir internationally. However, not all experts agreed with the study’s conclusions.

Egyptian ‘mummies’ smell surprisingly good—here’s why Chemical analysis and supersniffing humans can teach us about the past in new and noninvasive ways ...

If you were asked to describe the scent emanating from an ancient Egyptian mummy like you’d discuss a high-end perfume or the bouquet of a fine wine, you might mention fragrance notes of old ...

Have you ever wondered what a mummy smells like? Researchers analyzed the volatile compounds emitted from nine mummies spanning nearly 2000 years of Egyptian history and found that the scents still ...

Do you know a lot about the ancient Egyptian dead, or do you need to ask your mummy?

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 ...