CT Scans Reveal Hidden Ailments Of 2,300-Year-Old Egyptian Mummies

High-resolution imaging conducted at USC reveals evidence of chronic pain, dental disease and possible surgical intervention ...

Scientists want you to smell ancient Egyptian mummies

The team then developed two ways to present ancient scents to the public. Alongside the artifacts that inspired this project, ...

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, ...

What Do You Get When You Put a Mummy Through a CT Scan?

Researchers at the University of Southern California recently used high-resolution CT scanners and medical-grade 3-D printers ...
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2,000-Year-Old Mummies Show Ancient Egyptians Had Back and Hip Pain, Too

Learn how advancements in CT scanner technology is helping to unwrap the lives of ancient Egyptian mummies without even ...

Two 2,200-year-old mummies get CT scans at USC. Here’s what researchers found out

Each mummy was scanned in its sarcophagus, which weighs about 200 pounds. Then 3D models of the two Egyptian priests were ...

Experts Stuck 2 Mummies in a CT Scanner. Here’s What They Saw

Two Egyptian mummies underwent full-body computed tomography (CT) scans, which doctors today use to identify injuries and ...
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 ...

Breathing in the past: How museums can use biomolecular archaeology to bring ancient scents to life

Recent advances in biomolecular archaeology have revealed that ancient objects can retain the molecular fingerprints of past ...
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Egyptian Mummification Ingredients Can Be Identified By Their Smell

The mummies tested in the study spanned almost the entire history of ancient Egypt, ranging from 2000 BCE to 295 CE. On the whole, the researchers found that mummies from the same historical period ...
Hyperallergic

Archaeologists Reconstruct the Scents of Ancient Mummification

Unknown artist, “Mesu Smelling a Lotus” (c. 1525–1504 BCE), New Kingdom, Thebes, Egypt (image via Metropolitan Museum of Art) What did ancient mummies smell like? What types of scents, perfumes, and ...