Less than a month into Sudan’s civil war, which began in 2023, videos surfaced of militants inside the National Museum’s bioarchaeology laboratory boasting that they had found ...

Researchers who sniffed mummified remains in the name of science were greeted more with a blessing than a curse. It turns out ...

Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies smell ‘woody,’ ‘spicy’ and ‘sweet’, finds a new study led by researchers from University College London and the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, revealing new det ...

Even after 5,000 years in a sarcophagus, mummified bodies from ancient Egypt still smell quite nice, scientists have ...

Study shows mummification process left preserved remains smelling sweet and woody In a nutshell Ancient Egyptian mummies emit ...

Welcome to ‘sensory heritage’, the study of how we engage with objects from the past besides what they look like.