Ancient mummies in Egypt have a smell that was not anticipated by scientists but indicates crucial information about its history.

Joann also looks at the significance of the amulets and jewellery that were placed on the mummies before they were buried. This clip is from BBC series: Ancient Egypt - Life and Death in the ...

Even after 5,000 years in a sarcophagus, mummified bodies from ancient Egypt still smell quite nice, scientists have discovered. Researchers who examined nine mummies found that though there was ...

Researchers, wanting to understand how mummies smell after long periods in museum display cases and storage, collected samples of the odours emitted by nine of them at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

Are these perfume descriptions? Not at all. These adjectives refer to a series of Egyptian mummies whose smells have been analyzed by an international team of researchers. The results were ...

The earliest Egyptian mummies discovered by archaeologists date to around 3500 B.C., well before the Great Pyramid of Giza was built. Mummification was a sacred funeral rite for the ancient ...

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Using a combination of high-tech tools like an electronic ‘nose’ and trained human sniffers, they studied nine mummies on display and in storage at Cairo's Egyptian Museum. The results ...

Researchers have found mummies in ancient Egypt smell "sweet" and "spicy", even after 5,000 years in a sarcophagus. Scientists at University College London have been using "human sniffers" and an ...