But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually smell pretty good. “In films and books, terrible things happen to those ...

All other high-altitude Inca mummies have been completely desiccated ... A month after Reinhard's amazing discovery of Juanita, he returned to Ampato with a full archaeological team to explore ...

While the ancient Egyptians may be the best-known mummy makers, they were far from the first. A very sophisticated fishing tribe called the Chinchoros, who lived on the north coast of what is now ...

The British Museum has carried out scans on eight Egyptian mummies, revealing amazing details about the people inside the caskets. Never before has anyone seen mummy hair, muscles and bone in such ...

Are these perfume descriptions? Not at all. These adjectives refer to a series of Egyptian mummies whose smells have been analyzed by an international team of researchers. The results were ...