Scent was an important consideration in the mummification process that used oils, waxes and balms to preserve the body and its spirit for the afterlife. The practice was largely reserved for pharaohs ...

Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies smell ‘woody,’ ‘spicy’ and ‘sweet’, finds a new study led by researchers from University College London and the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, revealing new det ...

Much weeping and gnashing of teeth over at the BBC as Bafta president Prince William confirms that he won't be attending ...

The German actor made Hollywood history in 1929 when he won Best Actor over a dog, before becoming a willing cog in Adolf ...

A delicate operation to return an Egyptian mummy and a sarcophagus to Cairo cost University College Cork more than €34,000.

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Mary Beard, described as the most famous classicist in Britain, presented her lecture titled “The Boy Who Breathed on the Glass at the British Museum” on ...

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It's a return to form that will have Boden's core customer – yummy mummies who include Sienna ... But then, in 2023, Johnny Boden, the British brand's fabulously eccentric founder, owned up ...

A SCIENTIST made a bizarre discovery after breaking open a piece of chalk and finding 66 million-year-old fish vomit. The find dating back to the age of the dinosaurs was made by fossil hunter ...

A railcar at the Burley museum is reported to have carried the ... "He had several exhibits, but the main attraction was a mummy he had that was the supposed mummified body of assassin John ...