A recent international study led by archaeologist Kamila Braulińska from the University of Warsaw challenged previous claims ...

“Many people have sniffed mummies, of course,” says Matija Strlič, a professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Ljubljana and a professor of heritage science at University College London.

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An ancient Egyptian woman thought to have been pregnant and dying of cancer was actually just embalmed with a technique that ...

Once categorized, the team was then able to describe the smell of each mummy in detail. Even around 5,000 years after their embalming, Strlič and collaborators described the bodies as smelling ...

Opening the mummy's cavity would be the most direct way ... and damaging them would destroy the only known evidence of this particular embalming technique. Telephone: *2421 * Extension 4 Jerusalem ...

"It tells us potentially what social class a mummy was from and and therefore ... contained mummified organs of a noblewoman to identify embalming ingredients, their origins and what they revealed ...

“It tells us potentially what social class a mummy was from and and therefore ... mummified organs of a noblewoman to identify embalming ingredients, their origins and what they revealed about ...