Two ancient mummification workshops — one for humans and another for animals — have been discovered at Saqqara in Egypt. The workshops date back around 2,300 years and were in use between the late ...

The largest cache of embalming vessels discovered in Egypt included pots containing resins, oils and myrrh. Petr Košárek, Charles University Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a cache of ...

Ongoing excavations at Egypt’s Saqqara necropolis, south of Cairo, have unearthed two mummification workshops and the tombs of two significant priests. The site’s latest treasures, which Egypt’s ...

Deep inside a shaft in the cemetery of Abusir, near Cairo, a team of Egyptian and Czech Egyptologists has found a significant cache of equipment used more than 2,500 years ago to embalm mummies. The ...

Mummification of the dead probably was more common in prehistory than previously known. This discovery is made at the hunter-gatherer burial sites in the Sado Valley in Portugal, dating to 8,000 years ...

A team of researchers has recreated one of the scents used in the mummification of an important Egyptian woman more than 3500 years ago. In an innovative endeavor to create a sensory bridge to the ...

Mummification of the dead probably was more common in prehistory than previously known. This discovery is made at the hunter-gatherer burial sites in the Sado Valley in Portugal, dating to 8 000 years ...

Egyptians may not have used mummification to preserve the body at all, some scientists say. They could've wanted to turn royal remains into godly statues — preservation was a perk, they said.

Scientists have unearthed what they believe to be the oldest known evidence of human mummification in Southeast Asia. The findings, estimated to be around 12,000 years old, set a new record for the ...

Scientists have decoded an ancient aroma by identifying the ingredients used in Egyptian mummification balms — and resurrected the scent. Those eager to sample this whiff of the past will be able to ...