The team’s approach could inspire museums to entertain visitors with odorous features such as smellscapes. In fact, the ...

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

Few visitors wandering through the mummy galleries at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo have the opportunity—or perhaps the ...

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

Uunfortunately for the Egyptians, who believed a 'good' smell after death brought people closer to the gods, the mummies' aromas now have faint notes of cheese, vomit and urine.

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

Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies smell ‘woody,’ ‘spicy’ and ‘sweet’, finds a new study led by researchers from University College London and the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, revealing new det ...

The research team explained that smell was a key consideration for the ancient Egyptians during the mummification process, as ...

Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies preserved for 5,000 years smell “woody”, “spicy” and “sweet”, according to scientists who ...

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

Barbara Huber, a postdoctoral researcher at Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Germany who was not involved in the ...

This new data offers clues about the materials used in mummification and how practices and ingredients evolved.