While most of the world was in lockdown, a team of 15 researchers carefully scraped thousands of years of soot, dirt, and ...

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Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies smell ‘woody,’ ‘spicy’ and ‘sweet’, finds a new study led by researchers from UCL and the ...

Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies smell 'woody,' 'spicy' and 'sweet', finds a new study led by researchers from UCL and the ...

Scientists used an 'electronic nose' (and good old biological sniffers) to reveal the scents of ancient mummies.

The analysis provided new insights into the materials ancient Egyptians used for embalming, revealing how these practices ...

Scientists studied the scents of ancient Egyptian mummies, revealing embalming materials and conservation effects.