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December 6, 2023

Ägyptens Duft für das Jenseits – Parfüm aus dem Land der Pharaonen, von Markus Brauer

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September 14, 2023

Atlas Obscura: Get a Whiff of Ancient Egypt’s ‘Scent of Eternity’, by Roxanne Hoorn

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September 11, 2023

EL PAIS: Researchers find that an Egyptian mummy’s eternal balms smelled of pine, beeswax and bitumen, by Marc Español

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August 31, 2023

CNN: A newly resurrected ancient smell may help reveal the life of a woman entombed with pharaohs, by Ashley Strickland

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August 31, 2023

The Guardian: ‘Scent of eternity’: scientists recreate balms used on ancient Egyptian mummy, by Nicola Davis

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August 31, 2023

Haaretz: Burial Jars of Pharaoh’s Wet Nurse Reveal Secrets of Ancient Egyptian Mummification, by Ruth Schuster

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August 31, 2023

euronews: Scientists recreate the fragrance of an ancient Egyptian mummy

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August 31, 2023

Daily Mail: Scientists recreate the scent used in the mummification of an Egyptian woman 3,500 years ago – revealing the ‘perfume of the AFTERLIFE’, by Victoria Allen

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August 31, 2023

New Scientist: ‘Scent of eternity’ worn by ancient Egyptian mummy has been revealed, by Sofia Quaglia

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March 27, 2023

CNN: How scientists are decoding what the past smelled like, by Kathie Hunt

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January 16, 2023

Chemistry world: The smell of history, by Nina Notman

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January 6, 2023

National Geographic: L’archéologie des odeurs, une discipline pleine de promesses, by Manon Meyer-Hilfiger

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May 21, 2022

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: What did ancient Egypt smell like? By Jonathan Green

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May 14, 2022

WELT: Wie Forscher jahrtausendealte Düfte wieder zum Leben erwecken, von Céline Lauer;

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May 14, 2022

Science News: Ancient ‘smellscapes’ are wafting out of artifacts and old texts, by Bruce Bower

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April 16, 2022

CBC: Quirks and Quarks with Bob McDonald, What did history smell like? New field of science aims to find out

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April 1, 2022

Popular Science: Can ancient smells help us time travel through human history? By Ella Weaver

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March 29, 2022

Cosmos Magazine: Smell-Ara Croft: piecing together the scents of ancient history, by Amalyah Hart

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June 5, 2018

Detector.fm: Wie riecht die Antike?

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