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“Many people have sniffed mummies, of course,” says Matija Strlič, a professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Ljubljana and a professor of heritage science at University College London.

But their scents can persist, and in the case of ancient Egyptian mummies, conservators describe those smells ... by carefully inserting a tube between the base and lid of the coffin. Then they ...

One museum visitor in Edinburgh was horrified to see stolen body parts belonging to his 19th century ancestors on display ...

An ancient Egyptian woman thought to have been pregnant and dying of cancer was actually just embalmed with a technique that ...

On the other hand, while on the topic, the famous Egyptian mummies have always ... do you know that even after 5,000 year in sarcophagus (coffin), the mummies manage to smell nice; 'woody' or ...

The earliest Egyptian mummies discovered by archaeologists date to around 3500 B.C., well before the Great Pyramid of Giza was built. Mummification was a sacred funeral rite for the ancient ...