Scents of the afterlife: Identifying embalming recipes by 'sniffing' the air around Egyptian mummies

If you have ever stood close to an ancient Egyptian mummy, you may remember a distinctive, lingering odor. For a long time, ...

Museums incorporate “scent of the afterlife” into Egyptian exhibits

As previously reported, Egyptian embalming is thought to have begun in the Predynastic Period or earlier, when people noticed ...
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Journey to Eternity: How Ancient Egyptians Viewed Life and Afterlife

The ancient Egyptians believed that life on earth was only part of an eternal journey that ended not in death, but in eternal ...

How hieroglyphs became the sacred script of the ancient Egyptians

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.
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Well-preserved 49-foot Book of the Dead found in Egypt is the 2nd to ever be found in history

Archaeologists in central Egypt reported finding a 43‑ to 49‑foot, well‑preserved papyrus in a New Kingdom tomb, underscoring ...
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A popular Humanities course is unwrapping the strange and fraught history and cultural afterlife of Egyptian mummies.

Mummification was a sacred ritual of the ancient Egyptians, who called their mummified dead “noble ones.” But when mummies started showing up as supernatural archfiends in Victorian horror novels and ...
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The ancient Egypt pack : a three-dimensional celebration of Egyptian mythology, culture, art, life and afterlife /[ devised, paper engineered and illustrated by Christos ...

"A Hilary Arnold Book"--t.p. verso. Includes "The ancient Egypt book" on Egyptian culture and mythology. ANCIENT EGYPT PACK : A THREEDIMENSIONAL CELEBRATION OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY CULTURE ART LIFE AND ...
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4,000-Year-Old Handprint Found on Ancient Egyptian Tomb

Researchers from Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam Museum in the UK made an astonishing discovery. They have uncovered a 4,000-year-old handprint beneath an ancient Egyptian "soul house" during ...