Two ancient mummification workshops — one for humans and another for animals — have been discovered at Saqqara in Egypt. The workshops date back around 2,300 years and were in use between the late ...
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Researchers Sniffed Egyptian Mummies as Part of Research — Then Came An Unexpected Scent
Egyptian mummies have long been a subject of fascination for people from all walks of life, be it scientists, archaeologists, ...
With her mouth wide open, locked for eternity in what appears to be a scream, an ancient Egyptian woman captured the imagination of archaeologists who discovered her mummified remains in 1935 in a ...
For thousands of years, ancient Egyptians mummified their dead in the search for eternal life. Now, researchers have used chemistry and an unusual collection of jars to figure out how they did it.
Inscribed ceramic vessels left behind in an Egyptian subterranean embalming structure from the 26th Dynasty of ancient Egypt offer new clues as to how the dead were preserved, and the role trade ...
LONDON — 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 ...
Centuries after they were painstakingly prepared for death, mummies still produce an odour described as woody, spicy and sweet. But unfortunately for the Egyptians, who believed a 'good' smell after ...
A team of international researchers from Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich and the University of Tübingen is unvailing the secrets of ancient Egyptian embalming. Vessels from an ancient ...
A team of researchers has recreated one of the scents used in the mummification of an important Egyptian woman more than 3500 years ago. In an innovative endeavor to create a sensory bridge to the ...
Japanese ambassador Oka Hiroshi visits a newly discovered tomb at the Saqqara archaeological site — Khaled DESOUKI Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed two human and animal embalming workshops, as ...
The remarkable Roman Egypt-era work represents some the earliest realistic portrait paintings still in existence today.
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