Researchers receive the remains of ancient Egyptian mummy, “We are surprised to unpleasant”

First whiff sounds disgusting: smells the essence of one the ancient body.

However, researchers who show interest in the name of science were well preserved Egyptian mummy In fact, a pretty good smell.

“In the films and books, there are terrible things for those who smell the mummion,” Cecilia Bembibre, University College Research Director at the London Institute of London. “We were surprised to enjoy them.”

“Woody,” “Spicy” and “Shirin” were the best descriptions than the tasting of wine than the conformant exercise. Cicek records were also discovered, which could be from juniper resins used in candlesticks and balms.

The research has been published in the magazine of the American Chemical Society on Thursday, both chemical analysis, and the smells of nine mummies in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo after 5,000 years.

They wanted to study the scent of researchers in a systematic way mumils Because it has been a wonderful topic for people and researchers at the same time, but also one of the authors of the reporting authors. Archaeologists, historians, conservatives and even art writers, pages of work until this issue – for good reason.

The smell was an important idea in the mummification process using oils, waxes and balms to protect the body in the process. The experience was mainly protected Pharaohs and nobles. Pleasant odors were associated with cleanliness and gods, while bad odors were signs of corruption and decay.

Without selecting Mummies themselvesResearchers from Invasive, UCL and Ljubljana University researchers, archaeological goods, or other products or microorganisms used to protect the archaeological items, pesticides or remnants were able to measure from or from other products.

“We were quite concerned that we could find notes or the records or instructions of the decaying facilities of the wrong objects,” he said. “We have specially because it can be indicators of germ degradation, but this is very good for the environment in this museum.”

To determine the protection situation, use the technical tools to measure and measure air molecules from Sarcophagi touch the mummies He was like a holy grail, said Strlič.

“This is a potentially explaining the social class from which social class, and therefore not conservatives, but also the mummy-free body, which belongs to curators and archaeologists,” he said. “We believe that this approach is of great interest to other museum collections potentially.”

Barbara Huber, a postmock researcher at the Institute of GeoAnthropology in Germany, said he provided very important information about the compounds found in the formation of findings Protect or worsen the mummified remains. The information can be used to better protect the ancient objects for future generations.

“However, research emphasizes the main problem: the odors found today are not necessarily during mummy,” Huber said. “Evaporation, oxidation and even storage conditions have changed the original fragrance profile over thousands of years.”

Huber a study two years ago a study, a bodies of a noble, a non-nublical bodies that analyzes about the origin and trade paths, then known as “eternal smell” for an exhibition in the Moesgaard Museum in Denmark He worked with a fragrance to create an interpretation of the scent of the balm.

Researchers of current researchers hope to do something similar to use the findings and developed “flaws” to make the scents they found and developed experience for future museums.

“Museums are called white cubes, see, see, you don’t want everything to get closer to your eyes,” he said. “It reduces the experience of observing mummioned objects via a glass box, because we do not know the practice process because we do not have the smell, and are one of us to engage in and engage in the world.”