Two ancient mummification workshops — one for humans and another for animals — have been discovered at Saqqara in Egypt. The workshops date back around 2,300 years and were in use between the late ...

Ancient civilizations approached passing differently. While today’s embalmers use just enough preservative for a dignified ...

The discovery of an unusual set of ceramic vessels has shed new light on the mummification process in ancient Egypt, according to a new study. Around 2,500 years old, the 31 jars were discovered in an ...

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On Wednesday, Feb. 26, Gene Hackman was found dead at age 95 in his New Mexico home along with his wife, 64, who was a classical pianist, and one of their pet dogs. According to an affidavit from an ...

A team of researchers has recreated one of the scents used in the mummification of an important Egyptian woman more than 3500 years ago. In an innovative endeavor to create a sensory bridge to the ...

Ten thousand years before ancient Egyptians began mummifying their dead, hunter-gatherers in Asia were smoke-drying the bodies of loved ones, a discovery that is rewriting the history of human ...

(CNN) – Scientists have decoded an ancient aroma by identifying the ingredients used in Egyptian mummification balms. They’ve now resurrected the scent. Anyone who wants to catch a whiff of the ...

In an innovative endeavor to create a sensory bridge to the ancient past, a team of researchers led by Barbara Huber of the MPI of Geoanthropology has recreated one of the scents used in the ...