The headline takeaway is scale and sensitivity: the team reported identifying 81 distinct VOCs. Those compounds clustered into four main ingredient groups linked to ancient embalming practice - fats ...

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A new study shows how ancient Egyptian mummy scent contains chemical clues that uncover embalming methods used thousands of ...

Harvard geneticist David Reich and his team are DNA testing the bones of ancient humans. Their explosive results are still coming in, but one thing is already certain: much of what we thought we knew ...

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Zahi Hawass recounts his rise in the new documentary The Man With the Hat, gracefully sidestepping the controversies that ...

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Preserved by dry, cool air and darkness, the cheetah mummies are offering scientists DNA insights into a lost population and ideas for bringing it back. One of seven mummified cheetahs found in caves ...

A 70-year-old woman died after riding the Revenge of the Mummy roller coaster at Universal Orlando theme park in Florida last year, according to newly released state records. The unidentified ...

A UK-based cultural heritage campaign has intensified pressure on the British Museum over the Parthenon Sculptures, formally submitting a petition to the Museum’s Trustees while also informing the ...

Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is the latest flick under the banner of The Mummy horror movie series, which originally started with Boris Karloff in 1932. The teaser for Lee Cronin’s The Mummy has been ...