Researchers have recreated the scent of the embalming fluid used to preserve the remains of a mummy from the Valley of Kings so she could live forever in the afterlife.
Jars That Had Contained Innards of Wet Nurse Senetnay Had Been Found Over a Century Ago. Now Residue Analysis Reveals the Exotic Recipe for Elite Mummification and Recreates ‘The Scent of Eternity’
A team of researchers led by Barbara Huber of the MPI of Geoanthropology has recreated one of the scents used in the mummification of an important Egyptian woman more than 3500 years ago. Coined 'the scent of the eternity’, the ancient aroma will be presented at the Moesgaard Museum in Denmark in an upcoming exhibition.