LONDON — At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies ...

Few visitors wandering through the mummy galleries at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo have the opportunity—or perhaps the inclination—to smell the aromas wafting off the gilded sarcophagi and elaborately ...

What exactly wafts out from those ancient sarcophagi? Is it the musty scent of dust, the sharp edge of decay — or something far more surprising? In ancient Egypt, scent played a crucial role in ...

Centuries after they were painstakingly prepared for death, mummies still produce an odour described as woody, spicy and sweet. But unfortunately for the Egyptians, who believed a 'good' smell after ...

Called simply “Mummies” and running in the museum’s top-floor temporary exhibition spaces until May next year, the exhibition ...