Ancient Egyptians were known to have covered mummies in aromatic oils and resins to mask the smell of death and preserve the bodies for eternity. When researchers analyzed remnants of volatile ...

MUMMIFICATION of sacred animals is a familiar practice in the annals of Ancient Egypt, especially in the later periods. A discovery of what is thought to be the earliest known example of the ...

"It has body horror, it has possession, it has the domestic setup. Underneath all of that, and maybe most importantly, it's a mystery." When Millennials think about The Mummy, Brendan Fraser and ...

Dramatic new discoveries in the ancient Egytptian burial ground. A special report produced with Smithsonian Channel Jo Marchant; Photographs by Roger Anis Beneath the ruins of the Bubasteion temple, ...

At necropsy, we found one 3.7-cm-long mummified fetus in the left uterine horn. We initially considered the radiopaque abdominal mass to be dystrophic mineralization (Fig. 2). Our differential ...