Old Egyptian Coffin Presumed ‘Empty’ Held Ancient 'Secret' Remains of a High Priestess Mummy Archaeologists explore the ...
Archaeologists discovers 13 wooden coffins in the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara. A supermassive black hole, estimated to be 600,000 times larger than the Sun, is making its way toward the ...
The ancient Egyptians were not the first culture to mummify their dead, but they practically perfected the practice by ...
Even around 5,000 years after their embalming, Strlič and collaborators described the bodies as smelling “pleasant.” This is ...
Thousands of years later, embalmed bodies still retain their scents. An international team of researchers has studied them to ...
But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually ...
A new, first-of-its-kind analysis of the scents of nine mummies detected woody, spicy, herbal and rancid notes, among other ...
The scents wafting off an ancient corpse do not seem like they would smell all that pleasant. But researchers got […] ...