Old Gold-Laced Mummy With Ancient King's 'Secret Keeper' Discovered, Leaves Archaeologists Stunned In recent years, ...

Researchers who sniffed mummified remains in the name of science described them as "woody," "spicy," and "sweet," with floral notes.

A delicate operation to return an Egyptian mummy and a sarcophagus to Cairo cost University College Cork more than €34,000.

"Ushabtis were never put inside of the bodies of a mummy. They were typically buried around them, outside of the sarcophagus," he said. Ushabtis were meant to serve the deceased in the afterlife ...