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 ...
Scent was an important consideration in the mummification process that used oils, waxes and balms to preserve the body and ...
While historians have long debated the holiday's origin story, evidence shows it predates the existence of commercial ...
In the original festival, men would sacrifice a goat and a dog, then run around naked or nearly naked, hitting women with the animals' hides.
The team’s approach could inspire museums to entertain visitors with odorous features such as smellscapes. In fact, the ...
We know what they look like, and even sound like, but there’s one question you might not have pondered: what do ancient ...
A new, first-of-its-kind analysis of the scents of nine mummies detected woody, spicy, herbal and rancid notes, among other ...
NASA's Perseverance rover has been busy gathering bits of Mars — rock cores the size of chalk sticks, clusters of broken fragments no bigger than pencil erasers, and even grains of dust fine enough to ...
Archaeologists used to think that the Clovis people were the first inhabitants of the Americas some 13,500 years ago. The ...