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 ...

The study provides new information on the embalming materials used in different periods of ancient Egypt. By identifying the chemical compositions of these scents, researchers could determine whether ...

STORY: You might think that a mummified corpse would have a fairly unpleasant stink. But according to scientists researching what ancient Egyptian mummies smell like, you'd be wrong. They emit woody, ...

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 ...

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

Forget the horror movies – the scent of ancient Egyptian mummies is surprisingly pleasant, according to researchers. A new study, blending scientific analysis with the power of the human nose, reveals ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...