Mummies new to the exhibit include two Egyptian priests, remains of 18th-century townspeople found in a long-forgotten church in Hungary, and a 17th-century German nobleman buried in his military ...

The faint scent lingering around ancient Egyptian mummies may hold far more information than previously imagined. By analyzing airborne chemical compounds released from embalmed remains, researchers ...

Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt," on display through Sept. 13, includes 36 mummified animals among its 100 artifacts.

According to the researchers who have worked with them, not all that bad. They’ve used descriptors like woody, spicy, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: You might think that a mummified corpse would have a fairly unpleasant stink. But according to scientists researching what ...

Cat Mummy (Third Intermediate Period to Late Period, 780–390 BCE) and ibis mummy from the ibis cemetery at Abydos (Early Roman Period, 30 BCE–early 1st century CE) in ‘Soulful Creatures: Animal ...

Archaeologists have unearthed several ancient tombs with dozens of mummies—including some with golden tongues. Researchers made the findings during excavations at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus, an ...

CAIRO — A storeroom housing about two dozen ancient Egyptian mummies has been unearthed inside a 2,600-year-old tomb during the latest round of excavations at the vast necropolis of Saqqara south of ...