Is the Grand Egyptian Museum worth visiting? What you can see – and what’s missing – before it fully opens
The Hetepheres collection now sits among the thousands of incredible artefacts at the newly-opened Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM ...
The Four Seasons’ Guide To Cairo And Egypt’s Pyramids
For your Egypt adventure start in Cairo and let the Four Seasons Nile Plaza arrange everything from a visit to the Great Pyramid to newly-opened Grand Egyptian Museum ...
Cairo cool: the renaissance of Downtown
The city’s Belle Époque streets were once Egypt’s nexus of cosmopolitan culture and society; their shine dimmed by ...
Egypt announces first discovery of a royal tomb since King Tutankhamun's was found over a century ago
Archaeologists in Egypt have found the tomb of King Thutmose II — the first discovery of an ancient royal tomb since King ...
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Ancient Egyptian Mummies Actually Smell Delightful
The scents wafting off an ancient corpse do not seem like they would smell all that pleasant. But researchers got a whiff of ...
Archaeologists Unearth the First Pharaoh’s Tomb Since Tutankhamun
The first royal tomb discovered in over a century is shedding new light on the pharaoh who ruled before Hatshepsut.
Tomb of Egyptian pharaoh is first found in Luxor since Tutankhamun – here’s how we know who lay inside
Discovered in 2022, the site is some 1.2 miles away from the Valley of the Kings, where tombs for Thutmose I and III and ...
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Ancient Egyptian 'granary with scribes' diorama: A miniature workplace found buried in a tomb from the Middle Kingdom
A small, wooden diorama found in an ancient Egyptian tomb reflects the importance of grain in an agricultural society.
New study reveals that ancient Egyptian mummies smell ‘spicy’ and ‘sweet’
A new study has uncovered the "woody," "spicy," and "sweet" scents of ancient Egyptian mummies, shedding light on the mummification process and its evolution over time.
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The scent of the mummy. Research discovers ancient Egyptian remains smell nice
Researchers who sniffed mummified remains in the name of science were greeted more with a blessing than a curse.
What do Egyptian mummies smell like, and what can we learn from that?
Thousands of years later, embalmed bodies still retain their scents. An international team of researchers has studied them to ...
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Tomb of ancient Egyptian pharaoh is 1st to be discovered in 100 years
The tomb of Thutmose II, a pharaoh who ruled about 3,500 years ago, has been discovered west of the Valley of the Kings.