What materials did ancient Egyptians use to preserve the dead, and how can their composition still be investigated thousands ...

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The most important ingredient, however, was zinc. Melissa Johnson Williams, executive director of the American Society of Embalmers, told National Geographic that zinc effectively petrified Rosalia's ...

Sarah Marchant/Shutterstock By Daniel Payne CNA Staff, Jun 13, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). In an era of increasing environmental ...

One incredibly well-preserved 5,600-year-old mummy is now upending much of what we thought we knew about Ancient Egyptian embalming. A study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science shows ...

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 ...

This story was produced in collaboration with CivicStory as part of the New Jersey Sustainability Reporting project. Along a winding, bright green moss trail in Steelmantown Cemetery is a small ...

From the moment Tyrone Timms pulled up outside his father’s Arizona home on Veterans Day 2019, he knew something was wrong. John Gause, a Vietnam War veteran, hadn’t picked up the phone. The blinds ...

Scholars have concluded that King Tutankhamun was not murdered, after a lengthy investigation that seemed to refute popular theory. The death of King Tut has been the subject of great debate and major ...

A new analysis of an ancient Egyptian mummy suggests that sophisticated techniques for preserving the dead may be 1,000 years older than previously believed. The discovery centers on the tomb of a ...