A new, first-of-its-kind analysis of the scents of nine mummies detected woody, spicy, herbal and rancid notes, among other ...

An Ancient North African Civilization Sacrificed Their Young Children to Gods as Part of a Religious Practice In ancient Carthage, (now in Tunisia) the civilization used to follow brutal rituals of ...

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The team headed to Harvard University’s Peabody Museum in Cambridge, where they were granted permission to collect the yeast ...

The team’s approach could inspire museums to entertain visitors with odorous features such as smellscapes. In fact, the ...

Researchers who sniffed mummified remains in the name of science were greeted more with a blessing than a curse.

Even around 5,000 years after their embalming, Strlič and collaborators described the bodies as smelling “pleasant.” This is ...

Surnames can reveal much about your family history, but they can also be a minefield of misinformation. By Paul Blake. Twenty members of the public describe what spurred them on to discover more ...

By Laurie Milner. Can a truly multi-racial society ever be achieved in modern Britain, or does history prevent it? By Diane Abbott. Thatcherism and the End of the Post-War Consensus by Dennis ...