The scents wafting off an ancient corpse do not seem like they would smell all that pleasant. But researchers got […] ...

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

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

Scientists studied the scents of ancient Egyptian mummies, revealing embalming materials and conservation effects.

We now know what ancient Egyptian mummies smell like, thanks to new research that deployed a team of trained 'sniffers'. And ...

Thousands of years later, embalmed bodies still retain their scents. An international team of researchers has studied them to ...

Researchers find that aromatic resins used in mummification continue to produce sweet, woody, and spicy scents.

According to the researchers, the intensity of the smell on the ancient Egyptian mummies varied from one specimen to the ...

The research, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, involved sniffing nine mummies, some dating back ...

Even around 5,000 years after their embalming, Strlič and collaborators described the bodies as smelling “pleasant.” This is ...

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

At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: Sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in ...