Few visitors wandering through the mummy galleries at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo have the opportunity—or perhaps the inclination—to smell the aromas wafting off the gilded sarcophagi and elaborately ...

Unknown artist, “Mesu Smelling a Lotus” (c. 1525–1504 BCE), New Kingdom, Thebes, Egypt (image via Metropolitan Museum of Art) What did ancient mummies smell like? What types of scents, perfumes, and ...

While Egyptian kings and queens are the most famous examples of mummification, the practice wasn’t just for pharaohs. It expanded over time until everyone from the poor up were being preserved for ...

Called simply “Mummies” and running in the museum’s top-floor temporary exhibition spaces until May next year, the exhibition ...

Egyptian mummies, that have been entombed for hundreds, and even thousands of years, still smell 'fresh', scientists ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ancient Egyptians were not the first culture to mummify their dead, but they practically ...

It effectively allows visitors to virtually peel back the layers of history through interactive 3D visualisations of the CT scans. Three-dimensional images of six mummies aged between 900BC and ...