A collection of mummified animals that the scholars brought back from Egypt seemed to hold the key to the question of species transformation. Naturalists Georges Cuvier and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ...

The many thousands of mummified animals that turned up at sacred sites throughout Egypt were just things to be cleared away to get at the good stuff. Few people studied them, and their importance ...

The presence of a single mummified fetus in a rabbit seemed unusual ... that are normal for such animals. No matter what the clinical complaint or presentation is, a thorough systemic examination ...

"The fact that we can't [determine whether it's wolf or dog] might suggest that it's from a population that was ancestral to ...

Even after 5,000 years in a sarcophagus, mummified bodies from ancient Egypt still smell quite nice, scientists have ...

The archaeologists used CT scans to analyze the size and shape of the mummified animals' bones, according to the Ministry of Antiquities Facebook page, but the identity of the other wildcats ...

Scanning Ancient Animal Mummies A collection of ancient Egyptian animal mummies from the Brooklyn Museum is subjected to the powerful X-rays of a CT scanner in order to peer through the centuries-old ...

Welcome to ‘sensory heritage’, the study of how we engage with objects from the past besides what they look like.

Active sampling with sorbent tubes of the air surrounding a mummified body from the New Kingdom at the exhibition area of the Egyptian museum in Cairo. Credit: Emma Paolin “Mummification was an ...