Known as "Fred," this mummy proves that Egyptians had been using embalming practices for 1,500 years longer than scientists ...

Old Royal Mummy Digitally Unwrapped by Scientists, Reveals Secrets About Ancient Pharaoh For decades researchers analyzed ...

The study published Thursday in the Journal of the American Chemical Society used both chemical analysis and a panel of human sniffers to evaluate the odors from nine mummies as old as 5,000 years ...

But learning a mummy’s olfactory details wasn’t just ... the use of “smellscapes” in addition to the millennia-old visual components.

Even though the mummies are over 5,000 years old, those who have worked with them have described the scents as ‘pleasant’. This could be due to the resins and oils, such as pine, cedar and ...

Spain’s Ministry of Culture has ordered a Madrid museum to remove a mummy from view as part of a government policy to ...