Tattoos have been significant in several ancient cultures. The British Museum unveiled two ancient Egyptian mummies in 2018 with markings on them that previously went undetected, according to the ...

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 ...

Let's look at one of the most impressive mummy cases in the British Museum. It was made around 240 BC for a high-ranking Egyptian priest called Hornedjitef. There's a massive black outer case in ...

Golden Mummies of Egypt - Manchester Museum’s first ever international touring exhibition - will open at Nanshan Museum in Shenzhen on Friday 24 June. Golden Mummies, developed and produced in ...

Scientists used an 'electronic nose' (and good old biological sniffers) to reveal the scents of ancient mummies.

A new study has revealed what ancient Egyptian mummies smell like – and the results ... It adds another layer of data to enrich the museum exhibition of mummified bodies.’ ...

organised by the British Library in 1978. Since 2009 the diptych has been displayed in the museum’s Coptic corridor, which runs between the Egyptian mummies and the prints and drawings galleries.

But, as so often in the British Museum, appearances are deceiving ... the statues and the monuments, the mummies and the papyri - of Ancient Egyptian civilisation. By the time of the Rosetta ...

The topics in this series were developed by <strong>New Scientist</strong> in association with the <strong>Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences</strong> in Sydney ...