In an innovative endeavor to create a sensory bridge to the ancient past, a team of researchers led by Barbara Huber of the MPI of Geoanthropology has recreated one of the scents used in the ...

The world's oldest 'Mummy Manufacturing Manual' written around 1450 BC was discovered in the papyrus stored at the University of Copenhagen. It has been found that the method of 'face antiseptic ...

Ancient Egyptians practiced mummification, a process of preserving the dead, as they believed in an afterlife. They removed moisture from the body, used preservatives, and wrapped it in linen. This ...

A team of researchers from Ludwig Maximilian University and the University of Tübingen in Germany, in cooperation with the National Research Center in Cairo, succeeded in solving some of the secrets ...

Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies smell ‘woody,’ ‘spicy’ and ‘sweet’, finds a new study led by researchers from UCL and the University of Ljubljana, revealing new details about mumification practices.

One thing that never ceases to amaze me is how specific some of the objects of erotic and sexual focus are when it comes to sexual fetishes and sexual paraphilias. A case in point is mummification ...

The two "embalming workshops" date back to the 30th dynasty and the Ptolemaic eras. Egypt unearthed human and animal mummification workshops as well as two tombs in the ancient burial ground of ...

Smoke-drying mummification of human remains was practised by hunter-gatherers across southern China, southeast Asia and beyond as far back as 12,000 years ago, my colleagues and I report in new ...

Deep inside a shaft in the cemetery of Abusir, near Cairo, a team of Egyptian and Czech Egyptologists has found a significant cache of equipment used more than 2,500 years ago to embalm mummies. The ...

The mummy is associated with the legends of Egypt, but archaeologists have excavated preserved human remains the world over. Dr Joann Fletcher explores the fascinating and varied history of ...