The tomb of Pharaoh Thutmose II is the first royal crypt discovered in recent years, and scientists have new powerful tools ...

Among the most fascinating mummies discovered outside of Egypt is a tattooed ice mummy found at Ukok Plateau near the border ...

Even after 5,000 years in a sarcophagus, mummified bodies from ancient Egypt still smell quite nice, scientists have discovered. Researchers who examined nine mummies found that though there was some ...

Piers Litherland, who led the team which discovered Thutmose II's tomb, believes this latest chamber could contain the ...

The tomb was found in a poor state of preservation, due to flooding that would have happened shortly after the king’s death, ...

Archaeologists have found the last undiscovered royal tomb of the 18th Egyptian dynasty, which included the famous pharoah Tutankhamun. The uncovering of King Thutmose II's tomb marks the first time a ...

Scientists found that Egyptian mummies emit distinct “woody,” “spicy,” and “sweet” scents, revealing insights into their ...

After finding the first royal Egyptian tomb in over a century, archaeologist Pier Litherland now believes he knows the ...

But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually smell pretty good. “In films and books, terrible things happen to those ...

Discovered in 2022, the site is some 1.2 miles away from the Valley of the Kings, where tombs for Thutmose I and III and ...

A new, first-of-its-kind analysis of the scents of nine mummies detected woody, spicy, herbal and rancid notes, among other ...