Since 1915, the mummified head of an ancient Egyptian woman has been stored in a high school library in Australia. To this day, the circumstances under which the artifact appeared are unclear.

Without a doubt, the ancient Egyptians are the experts in body preservation and mummification. However, they were not the ...

The depiction of a beloved 'Simpsons' character has been discovered inside a 3,500-year-old Egyptian mummy's sarcophagus. Archaeologists found the inner lid featured a drawing of a yellow-colored ...

Mummy aroma may provide insight into social class and historical period, according to a team of trained mummy sniffers ...

Egyptian mummies have always been a subject of great interest, not only from researchers and scientists, but the general population as well. In ancient Egypt, mummification was a long and complex ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

This mummy, on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, was scientifically sniffed to reveal insights into how it was preserved thousands of years ago. Have you ever wondered what a mummy smells like?

The mysterious 'Bashiri' mummy has captivated the minds of Egyptologists for more than a century, but no expert has ever dared to touch it. The mummy, known as 'the untouchable one,' was ...

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