Thousands of years later, embalmed bodies still retain their scents. An international team of researchers has studied them to ...

At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in ...

A new, first-of-its-kind analysis of the scents of nine mummies detected woody, spicy, herbal and rancid notes, among other ...

A new study has uncovered the "woody," "spicy," and "sweet" scents of ancient Egyptian mummies, shedding light on the ...

We now know what ancient Egyptian mummies smell like, thanks to new research that deployed a team of trained 'sniffers'. And ...

A team has carried out a new study, with the help of both human noses and scientific tools, to work out how a group of ...

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

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

Even around 5,000 years after their embalming, Strlič and collaborators described the bodies as smelling “pleasant.” This is ...

To celebrate 30 years of collaboration between the Swiss Mummy Project (SMP) and its Egyptian partners, the Embassy of ...

The research, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, involved sniffing nine mummies, some dating back ...

Ancient Egyptian mummies mostly smelled "woody,""spicy" and "sweet," according to research published in the Journal of the ...