No archaeologist dares to open a 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummy, fearing the loss of a one-of-a-kind burial method.

And although it costs an additional 100 Egyptian pounds (or $11) to enter, the Mummy Room should be high on your list of museum must-sees. Though the Egyptian Museum's fees are a bit steep ...

To delve more deeply into mummies’ purported smells, Strlič and colleagues, including researchers from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, investigated the scent profiles of nine mummies. Five came from ...

But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian ... Museum in Cairo. The researchers wanted to systematically study the smell of mummies ...