Researchers have used a variety of techniques to learn how nine mummified bodies in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo smell. The scents, described as woody, spicy and sweet, revealed new details about ancient mummification practices in a paper published this week by a collaboration of conservators and curators at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and researchers from Slovenia, Poland and the UK. Hosts Carolyn Beeler and Carol Hills explain.
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