This led to an ongoing Egyptological investigation of the mysterious journey taken by Ankh-Hap from ancient Egypt to modern America.

The exhibition also includes more recent archaeological discoveries from Saqqara – the necropolis of the ancient capital ...

Mummification was a sacred ritual of the ancient Egyptians, who called their mummified dead “noble ones.” But when mummies started showing up as supernatural archfiends in Victorian horror novels and ...

Archaeologists uncover 59 sealed mummy coffins at Saqqara, Egypt, many believed to hold the remains of ancient priests. This ...

Few visitors wandering through the mummy galleries at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo have the opportunity—or perhaps the inclination—to smell the aromas wafting off the gilded sarcophagi and elaborately ...

A team of researchers has successfully recreated the elusive aroma once used in the mummification process of a prominent Egyptian woman over 3,500 years ago, Phys.org tells us in a report. Led by ...

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 ...

Treasures from Egyptian Museums in a major exhibition organised in collaboration with the Supreme Council of Antiquities ...

LAHUN, Egypt (Reuters) - Archaeologists have unearthed a cache of pharaonic-era mummies in brightly painted wooden coffins near Egypt's little-known Lahun pyramid, the site head said on Sunday. The ...

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, ...

Thanks to amazing new technology and a group of talented staffers at the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery, we can now get better acquainted with one of Dayton’s most famous residents. We’re talking about ...

History fascinates the world and is crucial for understanding it as well, so we look at which is the most expensive house of ...