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People Who Work With Dead Bodies Are Sharing Secrets And Horror Stories About Their Jobs, And I'm Officially Spooked
"I was removing a female decedent from a home, and the front porch stairs were steep. She wasn’t strapped onto the stretcher ...
'Woody,' 'spicy' and 'sweet': Smell of ancient Egyptian mummified bodies reveals new insights into embalming practices
Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies smell 'woody,' 'spicy' and 'sweet', finds a new study led by researchers from UCL and the ...
Researchers Sniff Ancient Egyptian Remains, Make Surprising Discovery
Barbara Huber, a postdoctoral researcher at Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Germany who was not involved in the ...
Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice: Researchers Analyze the Surprising Smells of Ancient Egyptian Mummies
The team’s approach could inspire museums to entertain visitors with odorous features such as smellscapes. In fact, the ...
What do Egyptian mummies smell like? Surprisingly pleasant.
Even around 5,000 years after their embalming, Strlič and collaborators described the bodies as smelling “pleasant.” This is ...
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Mummies of the World
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 ...
The scent of the mummy. Research discovers ancient Egyptian remains smell nice
Researchers who sniffed mummified remains in the name of science were greeted more with a blessing than a curse ...