Tutankhamun's tomb provides evidence about how pharaohs lived and died in ancient Egypt.

The stuff of dreams for any archaeologist, Piers Litherland and his team, working on a British-Egyptian excavation, might have stumbled upon the second tomb of King Thutmose II in the Western ...

The earliest Egyptian mummies discovered by archaeologists ... so it was always left inside a mummy. But the process of mummification was complicated and costly, so it was typically reserved ...

To celebrate 30 years of collaboration between the Swiss Mummy Project (SMP) and its Egyptian partners, the Embassy of Switzerland in Egypt, in partnership with the University of Zurich ...

“We want to share the experience of smelling a mummy. That’s why we are recreating the smell in a lab and present our findings at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo,” said Cecilia ...

But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually ... more like a wine tasting than a mummy sniffing exercise.

Using a combination of high-tech tools like an electronic ‘nose’ and trained human sniffers, they studied nine mummies on display and in storage at Cairo's Egyptian Museum. The results ...

Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities/AFP via Getty Images) The mummy of a 30-year-old man found in 1881 in Deir el-Bahari had previously been identified as Thutmose II. But Piers now thinks that ...