Taking samples from jars containing lungs and liver of ancient noblewoman, scientists reproduce smell of balms used in mummification

Site at ancient capital of Memphis used to mummify humans and animals nearly two and a half thousand years ago

Israel Museum expert says CT scans offer best way to examine how coffins, including one almost 3,000 years old, were made and decorated

Using modern scanning technology, scientists discover sealed off corridor 9 meters in length and 2 meters wide, perched above main entrance of pyramid

Finds in Saqqara necropolis date back to 25th to 22nd centuries BCE, include sarcophagus that was still sealed, statues, and amulets

Three-meter-tall coffin, which may have belonged to priest named Ankhenmaat, was stolen and smuggled via Germany into US in 2008; returned in official Cairo ceremony

Tour guide for eighth-grade pupils in Azor comes up with finding, which likely depicts an ancient Egyptian pharaoh bestowing authority on local Canaanite ruler

Researcher says hidden hieroglyphics indicate that Egyptian boy king had buried his stepmother years earlier in adjacent chamber of tomb, behind false wall

Researchers believe ancient Egyptians used the river's Khufu branch to move supplies in order to build the towering structures

Tombs of man and woman dating back 2,500 years found at Oxyrhynchus; male mummy's sarcophagus still sealed with hundreds of funerary items inside