CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — The Field Museum recently finished a project using a CT scanner to virtually unwrap more than two ...

Scientists at Chicago’s Field Museum are studying Egyptian mummies using a mobile CT scanner. Earlier this year, they spent four days carefully scanning 26 mummies in the museum’s collections.

Mummy aroma may provide insight into social class and historical period, according to a team of trained mummy sniffers ...

But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually smell ... or on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.