The ancient Egyptians were not the first culture to mummify their dead, but they practically perfected the practice by ...

The scents wafting off an ancient corpse do not seem like they would smell all that pleasant. But researchers got a whiff of ...

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

Egyptian mummies, that have been entombed for hundreds, and even thousands of years, still smell ‘fresh’, scientists examining the ancient mummified remains of Egyptian royals, have discovered.

Here’s a question you’ve probably never thought of: What do Egyptian mummies smell like? An international team of researchers has a surprising answer: woody, spicy, and sweet (but if you ...

Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies are a well known part of human history, but now new research has 'scent' the study of mummies to another level. Using the help of both human noses and scientific ...

Abdelrazek Elnaggar Mummification was a sacred—and fragrant—practice for ushering ancient Egyptian elite into the afterlife. For thousands of years, from roughly 2600 B.C.E. until the Arab ...

At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: Sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually ...

sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually smell pretty good. “In films and ...

There is a certain internal logic to making mummies smell good. Their creators didn’t want the dearly departed to carry their funk into the afterlife. “To the ancient Egyptians, mummification was an ...

The research, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, involved sniffing nine mummies, some dating back 5,000 years, housed at the Egyptian ... protect the ancient bodies for ...