Scent Of The Afterlife Unbottled In New Study Of Ancient Egyptian Mummification Balms

In an innovative endeavor to create a sensory bridge to the ancient past, a team of researchers led by Barbara Huber of the MPI of Geoanthropology has recreated one of the scents used in the mummification of an important Egyptian woman more than 3500 years ago.

Coined 'the scent of the eternity’, the ancient aroma will be...