Located in Fustat (Old Cairo), the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC) is like no other. The museum is dedicated ...

Without sampling the mummies themselves ... Dr. Abdelrazek Elnaggar, part of the research team at the Egyptian museum in Cairo, pose for a photo with a selection of the mummified bodies.

STORY: You might think that a mummified corpse would have a fairly unpleasant stink.But according to scientists researching ...

Few visitors wandering through the mummy galleries at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo have the opportunity—or perhaps the inclination—to smell the aromas wafting off the gilded sarcophagi and ...

These mummies span different historical periods ... Professor Ali Abdelhalim, director of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. “The practice evolved over time, and identifying different techniques ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Most people know what an ancient Egyptian mummy looks like, but they ...

The Field Museum also had conversations with Egyptian representatives about returning the mummies to Egypt, but those officials requested that the mummies remain on display at the Chicago museum ...

But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian ... Museum in Cairo. The researchers wanted to systematically study the smell of mummies ...

devices to catch the molecules and trained human sniffers – "noses," as the perfume industry would call them – to describe the scents released by mummies preserved in the Egyptian Museum in ...