Many of the mummies also had floral notes. Others gave off hints ... systematic study of this kind has been conducted on multiple Egyptian mummies from a range of time periods.

Floral notes were also detected ... as old as 5,000 years that had been either in storage or on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The researchers wanted to systematically study the smell ...

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