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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
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12465157/Scientists-recreate-scent-used-mummification-Egyptian-woman-3-500-years-ago-revealing-perfume-AFTERLIFE.html
New Scientist: ‘Scent of eternity’ worn by ancient Egyptian mummy has been revealed, by Sofia Quaglia
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2390048-scent-of-eternity-worn-by-ancient-egyptian-mummy-has-been-revealed/
CNN: How scientists are decoding what the past smelled like, by Kathie Hunt
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/27/world/decoding-how-the-past-smells-scn/index.html
Chemistry world: The smell of history, by Nina Notman
https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/the-smell-of-history/4016790.article
National Geographic: L’archéologie des odeurs, une discipline pleine de promesses, by Manon Meyer-Hilfiger
https://www.nationalgeographic.fr/sciences/2022/12/larcheologie-des-odeurs-une-discipline-pleine-de-promesses
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: What did ancient Egypt smell like? By Jonathan Green
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/blueprintforliving/ancient-smells-barbara-huber/13889010
WELT: Wie Forscher jahrtausendealte Düfte wieder zum Leben erwecken, von Céline Lauer;
https://www.welt.de/wissenschaft/plus238680289/Gerueche-aus-der-Antike-Wie-Forscher-alte-Duefte-zum-Leben-erwecken.html
Science News: Ancient ‘smellscapes’ are wafting out of artifacts and old texts, by Bruce Bower
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-smell-odor-artifacts-texts-egypt-archaeology
CBC: Quirks and Quarks with Bob McDonald, What did history smell like? New field of science aims to find out
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-51-quirks-and-quarks/clip/15906905-what-history-smell-like-new-field-science-aims