In 1922, archaeologists uncovered the intact tomb of Tutankhamun, exposing thousands of artifacts placed around the young Egyptian king for burial. Among the gold ornaments, chariots and ritual items ...

Michelle Spear explores why has the heart, more than any other organ, has been imbued with such deep symbolism and power ...

Egyptian mythology included hundreds of gods, but only a select few stood above the rest. Deities like Amun-Ra, Isis, Osiris, and Horus shaped ideas about creation, kingship, justice, and the ...

Ancient Egypt did not worship just one or two major gods. It built an entire pantheon of over 100 powerful deities, each ...

Chemists and perfumers are using new techniques to bring ancient scents back to life, from mummies to a 5,000-year-old ...

From the Third Intermediate Period through the Late, Ptolemaic, and Roman eras, ancient Egyptian private funerary monuments underwent marked architectural and ritual reconfigurations ...

Even walking the magnificent staircase leading to the exhibitions holds real grandeur; lined with statues of ancient kings and queens, a huge window on one of the upper floors gives a perfectly framed ...

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 ...

Scented cards are now provided to visitors during The Scent of the Afterlife tours at the Museum August Kestner in Hanover, ...

If you have ever stood close to an ancient Egyptian mummy, you may remember a distinctive, lingering odor. For a long time, ...

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

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