Archaeologists bring 3,500-year-old fragrances used by ancient Egyptians back to life - Advance could lead to multisensory ...

The headline takeaway is scale and sensitivity: the team reported identifying 81 distinct VOCs. Those compounds clustered into four main ingredient groups linked to ancient embalming practice - fats ...

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In Nes-Min’s case, CT scanning revealed a collapsed lumbar vertebra - an injury pattern that suggests age-related wear and tear and likely long-term discomfort. According to Summer Decker, head of 3D ...

Peruvian workers clearing the way for new gas pipes stumbled across a mummy that archaeologists have since determined to be approximately 1,000 years old. The mummified remains were discovered not ...

Scans of 2,000-year-old mummy show ancient Egyptian lived with back pain - Analysis revealed facial features, including ...

The oldest evidence of mummification has been discovered in Vietnam, in the form of a single 14,000-year-old mummified arm. Unlike the Egyptian mummification practice more familiar to modern Western ...

Utility workers recently came across a millennia-old mummy that predates the Inca Empire. The groundsmen were excavating trenches in the Peruvian capital of Lima earlier in June when they came across ...