A new study has revealed what ancient Egyptian mummies smell like – and the results might surprise you. Researchers from UCL ...

"Here we show that she was embalmed with costly, imported embalming material," he said. "The mummy's screaming facial expression in this study could be read as a cadaveric spasm, implying that the ...

Embalming became an art—practiced in booths ... The last step was to coat the mummy in warm resin and wrap it from head to foot in layer after layer of linen strips. About 150 yards—the ...

Reinhard led another expedition in 1996 that resulted in the discovery of "Sarita," another sacrificial mummy. (For more information, see Ice Mummies of the Inca.) Embalming methods usually ...

“Embalming was carried out in a well-organised ... Kingdom period and six centuries after pharaoh Tutankhamen – whose mummy and fabulous funerary objects were found in 1922 – reigned ...