The team then developed two ways to present ancient scents to the public. Alongside the artifacts that inspired this project, the team recreated the aromas of mummification in ancient Egypt. A ...

As previously reported, Egyptian embalming is thought to have begun in the Predynastic Period or earlier, when people noticed ...

Recent advances in biomolecular archaeology have revealed that ancient objects can retain the molecular fingerprints of past ...

A major exhibition focusing on Ancient Egypt’s main deities has opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. “Divine Egypt” explores how ancient Egyptian gods and imagery were experienced in ...

Advances in the field have shown that ancient objects can retain the "molecular fingerprints" of past aromatic practices.

The long anticipated opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), originally slated for July, is finally going ahead this weekend. The $1 billion, 120-acre complex just outside Cairo promises to take ...

CAIRO (AP) -- In an extravaganza of pharaonic imagery with a drone light show depicting ancient gods and pyramids in the sky, Egypt on Saturday inaugurated its long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum, a ...

CAIRO (AP) — A boat belonging to an Egyptian pharaoh is being assembled in full view at the Grand Egyptian Museum’s exhibition hall. Staff began piecing together the cedarwood boat, one of two that ...

The GEM is one of the largest museums in the world, and the largest dedicated to a single civilization: ancient Egypt. Its subject matter spans some 7,000 years, from prehistory to the end of the ...

Since the late 19th-century, Egypt has continued to offer up astounding archaeological treasures, and it shows no signs of slowing down. The discovery of yet another pharaoh’s tomb, that of King ...

Read full article: How the RAM House and other organizations are helping out the homeless in the winter weather. CAIRO – In an extravaganza of pharaonic imagery with a drone light show depicting ...