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

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Without sampling the mummies themselves, which would be invasive, researchers from UCL and the University of Ljubljana in ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have found of the tomb of King Thutmose II - the first discovery of an ancient royal tomb since King ...

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

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.

Researchers who sniffed mummified remains in the name of science were greeted more with a blessing than a curse ...

A new, first-of-its-kind analysis of the scents of nine mummies ... ancient Egyptian elite into the afterlife. For thousands of years, from roughly 2600 B.C.E. until the Arab conquest of Egypt ...

At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse ... that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually smell pretty good. "In films and books, terrible things happen ...