What would an ancient Egyptian corpse have smelled like? Pine, balsam and bitumen – if you were nobility
- Written by: Nicole Boivin, Professor, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
Museum August Kestner, Hannover. Photo: Christian Tepper.In 1900 – some 22 years before he discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen – British archaeologist Howard Carter opened another tomb in the Valley of the Kings. In tomb KV42, Carter found the remains of a noblewoman called Senetnay, who died around 1450 BCE.
More than a century later,...