A team of researchers has recreated one of the scents used in the mummification of an important Egyptian woman more than 3500 years ago. In an innovative endeavor to create a sensory bridge to the ...

Egypt has announced the discovery of two of the largest workshops ever used to mummify human and animal corpses in ancient times. Two workshops and two tombs were discovered in Saqqara, a vast ...

In an innovative endeavor to create a sensory bridge to the ancient past, a team of researchers led by Barbara Huber of the MPI of Geoanthropology has recreated one of the scents used in the ...

Today the practice of embalming the dead might creep anyone out, but once upon a time this act was revered. Mummification stood as a symbol of the intrinsic belief of the ancient Egyptians- a life ...

An illustration of a mummification experiment shows a bound body's breakdown of soft tissue after three weeks, and after seven months. The European Journal of Archaeology Archaeologists believe ...