Scientists from University College London (UCL) and the University of Ljubljana conduct the first systematic analysis of ...

1570–1075 BCE) and include those of Tutankhamen and other well-known pharaohs. It is the general process of this period that shall be described here. The mummification process took seventy days.

The scent of eternity’ represents more than just the aroma of the mummification process,” said Huber, an archaeologist at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena, Germany.

The discovery of an unusual set of ceramic vessels has shed new light on the mummification process in ancient Egypt, according to a new study. Around 2,500 years old, the 31 jars were ...

Using mass spectrometry, they studied the remaining traces of the balm that preserved — and scented — the organs during the mummification process. The balms used were complex, the study says ...

The site’s latest treasures, which Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced on May 27, paint a fuller picture of the mummification process. Researchers discovered two of Egypt’s ...

Most of what we know about ancient Egyptian mummification techniques comes from a few ancient texts. In addition to a text called The Ritual of Embalming, Greek historian Herodotus, in his ...

Analysis of substances uncovered in embalming workshop gives insight into the mummification process, and how CAR T therapies could turbocharge cancer treatments. Mummification was a significant ...

The human mummification workshop is made of mud brick and contains two beds that were used to embalm people, and the remains of tools and resin used in the embalming process were discovered inside ...