Scents of the afterlife: Identifying embalming recipes by 'sniffing' the air around Egyptian mummies

If you have ever stood close to an ancient Egyptian mummy, you may remember a distinctive, lingering odor. For a long time, ...

Breathing in the past: How museums can use biomolecular archaeology to bring ancient scents to life

Recent advances in biomolecular archaeology have revealed that ancient objects can retain the molecular fingerprints of past ...
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Scents from past recreated to give museum visitors a sniff of history

Advances in the field have shown that ancient objects can retain the "molecular fingerprints" of past aromatic practices. The ...

Scientists want you to smell ancient Egyptian mummies

The team then developed two ways to present ancient scents to the public. Alongside the artifacts that inspired this project, the team recreated the aromas of mummification in ancient Egypt. A ...
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Museums Revive Ancient Scents Through Biomolecular Archaeology

Recent advances in biomolecular archaeology have revealed that ancient objects can retain the molecular fingerprints of past aromatic practices. These ...