Ancient Origins

Scents of Ancient Egypt: Air Tests Reveal Mummy Balm Recipes

The headline takeaway is scale and sensitivity: the team reported identifying 81 distinct VOCs. Those compounds clustered into four main ingredient groups linked to ancient embalming practice - fats ...

Scents of the afterlife: Identifying embalming recipes by 'sniffing' the air around Egyptian mummies

If you have ever stood close to an ancient Egyptian mummy, you may remember a distinctive, lingering odor. For a long time, ...
Greek Reporter

The Smell of Eternity: How Mummy Scents Are Unlocking Ancient Egyptian Secrets

A new study shows how ancient Egyptian mummy scent contains chemical clues that uncover embalming methods used thousands of ...
Southeast Missourian

Here Come the Mummies

Here Come the Mummies performs Saturday, Aug. 17, at the Show Me Center in Cape Girardeau. The Funk/R&B band is know for playing in full mummy attire, wrapped from head to toe in bandages. Local funk ...