In ancient Egyptian funerary rituals, canopic jars were used to hold human organs that were removed during the mummification ...

Discover interesting facts about ancient Egypt's pyramids, mummies and pharaohs. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu ... Ancient Egyptians sometimes mummified their pets, including pet cats ...

Forget the horror movies – the scent of ancient Egyptian mummies is surprisingly pleasant, according to researchers. A new study, blending scientific analysis with the power of the human nose ...

The mummy of a Romano-Egyptian child from the Egyptian Ptolemaic period (304 B.C. to 30 B.C.) that is now housed at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C. (Image ...

A meat mummy is a section of animal prepared as if for eating, then bandaged and placed in a sarcophagus by ancient Egyptians. Egyptian royalty, even after death, got hungry. And royalty deserved ...

Egyptian researchers have learned new insights into the mummification process. For thousands of years, ancient Egyptians mummified their dead in the search for eternal life.

Let’s start with this secret: Mummies weren’t spooky to the ancient Egyptians. “Nowadays, when we look at anything dead, we consider it to be creepy,” says Egyptologist and National ...

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 ...

But one of the most well-known burial practices in living history is mummification. Ancient Egyptians began mummifying the dead as early as 3,500 B.C.E to keep ... The best ages for kids to ...

Researchers have identified the specific recipes used by the ancient Egyptians nearly 3,000 years ago to make mummies! The findings came after more than thirty large ceramic pots were discovered ...

Most people know what an ancient Egyptian mummy looks like, but they probably can’t tell you about how they smell. You don’t have to wait to get up-close-and-personal to one in a museum to ...

A look at 21 ancient Egyptian mummified children reveals that one-third of them had a blood disorder known as anemia.