This comes after the EFF’s Carl Niehaus alleged in the Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans that some of the bodies were in a bad state because they were not correctly preserved.

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The preserved bodies are believed to date all the way back to a time period between 1500 BC and 500 AD. Five of the mummies had been kept in the storage area, while the other four were kept in ...

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“The smell of mummified bodies has for years attracted significant interest from experts and the general public, but no combined chemical and perceptual scientific study has been conducted until now,” ...

The findings, researchers said, which were published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, show that smell can be used as a way of analysing the preserved bodies in a non-invasive way, but ...