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A new, first-of-its-kind analysis of the scents of nine mummies detected woody, spicy, herbal and rancid notes, among other ...

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Nine mummies as old as 5,000 years at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo were surprisingly found to smell “woody,” “spicy,” and ...