Monday morning I went to the mummy room in Cairo's cavernous Egyptian Museum to have a look for myself. They looked pretty rough, more than 3,000 years after their prime, and not being an expert I ...

And although it costs an additional 100 Egyptian pounds (or $11) to enter, the Mummy Room should be high on your list of museum must-sees. Though the Egyptian Museum's fees are a bit steep ...

“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.

CAIRO — Ancient Egyptian mummies don’t smell the way most people might expect. Instead of the musty odor often associated with old tombs and artifacts, many mummies give off surprisingly ...

But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian ... Museum in Cairo. The researchers wanted to systematically study the smell of mummies ...

Open the Youtube video Archaeologists in Australia discovered a 2,500-year-old mummy within the Egyptian coffin ... by a perspex case in the museum's Education Room. This coffin was quite plain ...