The team then developed two ways to present ancient scents to the public. Alongside the artifacts that inspired this project, ...

Scents from the past are being recreated using state of the art technology to give museum visitors a whiff of Egyptian ...

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

What did ancient Egypt really smell like? Not just how it looked or sounded, but how it felt to stand near a royal burial.

Scientists have developed new methods to recreate perfumes used during the ancient Egyptian mummification process, an advance that could lead to multisensory museum experiences in the future. In ...

As previously reported, Egyptian embalming is thought to have begun in the Predynastic Period or earlier, when people noticed that the arid desert heat tended to dry and preserve bodies buried in the ...

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 ...

The headline takeaway is scale and sensitivity: the team reported identifying 81 distinct VOCs. Those compounds clustered into four main ingredient groups linked to ancient embalming practice - fats ...

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 ...

A double statue of King Haremhab and Horus is displayed in the Divine Egypt exhibition, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) NEW YORK (AP) — ...

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

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 ...