The remarkable Roman Egypt-era work represents some the earliest realistic portrait paintings still in existence today.

CAIRO — Ancient Egyptian mummies don’t smell the way most people might expect. Instead of the musty odor often associated with old tombs and artifacts, many mummies give off surprisingly pleasant ...

The mummies tested in the study spanned almost the entire history of ancient Egypt, ranging from 2000 BCE to 295 CE. On the whole, the researchers found that mummies from the same historical period ...

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 ...

Scientists at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History have peered beneath the wrappings of ancient Egyptian mummified human remains to uncover new details about their identities and how they were ...

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 actually ...

We know what they look like, and even sound like, but there’s one question you might not have pondered: what do ancient Egyptian mummies smell like? Whether you wanted to know or not, scientists have ...

Scientists have found a number of mummified cheetahs in Saudi Arabian caves, which they say are a rare instance of ...

In the 19th century, preserved bodies were not only ceremonially unveiled; owning one became a status symbol. “It would be ...

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 ...