"I was removing a female decedent from a home, and the front porch stairs were steep. She wasn’t strapped onto the stretcher ...

Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies smell 'woody,' 'spicy' and 'sweet', finds a new study led by researchers from UCL and the ...

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

Learn how unpacking olfactory elements helps researchers understand mummy preservation techniques, and how you could one day ...

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

Opponents of the proposed rule largely argued against the unknown risks of soil made from human remains. Andrew Anderson, ...

The team’s approach could inspire museums to entertain visitors with odorous features such as smellscapes. In fact, the ...

This tissue preservation can happen by accident or through human intervention but ... The process of artificially preserving a dead body is called "embalming," and the methods used are as varied ...