At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in ...

Researchers are smelling ancient Egyptian mummies in hopes of shedding light on embalming practices of the past, according to ...

In cinema, the poster - or as it’s known in Egyptian cinema, the ‘afish’ - is a cornerstone of cinema’s cultural heritage. The term, borrowed from the French “affiche,” made its way into Egyptian ...

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PROF. ELLIOT SMITH and Mr. Warren Dawson have written a very interesting and useful book on mummies, which appears in a most attractive guise (except for some of the illustrations). Its outward ...

For the Egyptians, all three hypostases of the soul were essential. Ancient Egyptians practiced their famous mummification throughout their history. The first mummies from prehistoric times were ...

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Kaye et al., PNAS (2025) If tattoos are prone to fading within a single human lifetime, imagine the wear-and-tear on the tattoos of 1,200-year-old mummies. An international team of researchers has ...

Archaeologists discovered more than a dozen mummies older than 2,000 years with tongues made from golden amulets. Ancient Egyptians’ idea behind the golden tongues was that they would help the ...

For more than 5,000 years, humans have adorned themselves with tattoos, leaving a legacy of ink that spans millennia. Now, modern technology is peeling back the layers of history - literally - by ...