Archaeologists in Egypt unearthed a sealed packet of the epic poem resting atop a Roman-era mummy, suggesting they may have been used as a magical ward for the afterlife. Papyri were plentiful in the ...

Archaeologists toiling on two separate sites in Egypt have stumbled on a pair of remarkable finds of historic proportions — ...

Painting your tongue gold doesn’t do much good here on Earth, but ancient Egyptians believed giving the deceased a golden amulet in place of a tongue would allow them to speak in the afterlife.

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 actually ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: You might think that a mummified corpse would have a fairly unpleasant stink. But according to scientists researching what ...

Ancient Egypt produced an enormous number of mummies over more than 3,000 years, yet only a tiny fraction remain today. One ...

SAQQARA, Egypt — More than 2,600 years since they were buried, archaeologists in Egypt said Saturday they had found at least 59 ancient coffins in a vast necropolis south of the country's capital ...

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Most people probably aren’t itching to take a whiff of the mummified remains of the long dead. But doing so can unlock new pieces of the past, according to a new study. “Many people have sniffed ...

A new, first-of-its-kind analysis of the scents of nine mummies detected woody, spicy, herbal and rancid notes, among other odors Sarah Everts | Author, The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of ...