Animal mummification in ancient Egypt was a carefully organized practice that connected spiritual beliefs with economic activity. This wasn’t a rare or occasional ritual but a large, sustained ...

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Ancient Egypt—a civilization that was one of the most powerful the world has ever seen and which lasted for nearly 3,000 years—was among the first to mummify its dead, providing us a window into its ...

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Unknown artist, “Mesu Smelling a Lotus” (c. 1525–1504 BCE), New Kingdom, Thebes, Egypt (image via Metropolitan Museum of Art) What did ancient mummies smell like? What types of scents, perfumes, and ...

The decorative coffin of Lady Chenet-aa, a high-status woman who died some 3,000 years ago Morgan Clark / The Field Museum Scientists at Chicago’s Field Museum are studying Egyptian mummies using a ...

The Ancient Egypt exhibition had a six month sell-out run in Cairo, He is arguably Ancient Egypt’s best-known pharaoh, whose tomb was uncovered almost intact 100 years ago by British archaeologist ...