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

Replica of a Guanche mummy. (photo credit: Diego Delso is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.) Visitors to the National Archaeological Museum (MAN) in Madrid will no longer be able to admire the Guanche ...

Without sampling the mummies themselves ... which means that the environment in this museum, is actually quite good in terms of preservation.” Using technical instruments to measure and quantify ...

Lawmakers and campaigners in the United Kingdom are pushing for an end to the display of human remains in museums and the ...

“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.

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

A new study led by researchers from UCL and the University of Ljubljana reveals that ancient Egyptian mummified bodies emit ...

The study examined nine mummies from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, dating from the New Kingdom period starting around 1550 BCE to the Late Period up to the fourth century CE. The researchers ...

Despite the clear and present danger of being cancelled, I have to fess up that I‘d never heard of the all-party ...