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Unbottling the scent of the afterlife: New study of ancient Egyptian mummification balms
Phys dot org ^ | August 31, 2023 | Max Planck Society

Posted on 09/08/2023 7:53:36 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

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Limestone Canopic Jar of the Egyptian lady Senetnay (c. 1450 BCE); Museum August Kestner, Hannover (Inv.-No. 1935.200.1018).
Credit: Museum August Kestner, Hannover; Christian Tepper (museum photographer)
Credit: Museum August Kestner, Hannover; Christian Tepper (museum photographer)

1 posted on 09/08/2023 7:53:36 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AnalogReigns; AndrewC; aragorn; ...
...18th dynasty, circa 1450 BCE... would suggest that the ancient Egyptians had access to this Southeast Asian resin via long-distant trade almost a millennium earlier than previously known...
IOW, it's one of *those* topics.



2 posted on 09/08/2023 7:54:51 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...

3 posted on 09/08/2023 7:55:39 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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4 posted on 09/08/2023 7:57:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Market it today as Ghoulie Patchouli.


5 posted on 09/08/2023 7:58:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

People who study mummification aren’t wrapped too ti- nope, I can’t do that one again...


6 posted on 09/08/2023 8:04:33 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

“ancient Egyptians had access to this Southeast Asian resin via long-distant trade”

Long distance trade has been around a very long time. Inuit in the Canadian arctic had Viking-made products long before the Inuit and Vikings ever met.


7 posted on 09/08/2023 8:06:48 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: SunkenCiv

I’m sure Joey would want to give her a sniff.


8 posted on 09/08/2023 8:08:24 AM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: BenLurkin

“Smells better than a hippy” I wonder where desiccated corpses stand in. comparison to live hippies.


9 posted on 09/08/2023 8:10:08 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: packagingguy

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3675803/posts

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10 posted on 09/08/2023 8:22:32 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Huskrrrr

Don’t ask him about this, you’ll find out they graduated in the same class from an historically Black Egyptian university that had a swimming program.


11 posted on 09/08/2023 8:28:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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12 posted on 09/08/2023 8:34:33 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: rlmorel

LOLOL!


13 posted on 09/08/2023 8:50:29 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I know this is about resurrecting a smell from centuries ago, but...doom is eternal!


14 posted on 09/08/2023 9:01:34 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: SunkenCiv

Pretty cool.


15 posted on 09/08/2023 9:25:33 AM PDT by packagingguy
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...May I breathe the sweet air that comes from your mouth. May I see your beauty daily. My wish is that I hear your sweet voice of the north wind, that my body may grow young with life for love of you. May you give me your arms with your life-force, that I may receive it and live. May you call on my name continually, without it having be sought... [text from KV55]

16 posted on 09/08/2023 9:28:51 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: packagingguy

Or the trees were more growing in a wider area than thought?


17 posted on 09/08/2023 9:29:02 AM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: SunkenCiv

This is a fascinating use of the latest technology. The Bible mentions aromas, precious spices and balms many times. Imagine being there in a naturally-perfumed world instead of the fake candle aromas and “cinnamon” Christmas decorations in Walmart. Wonderful post.


18 posted on 09/09/2023 8:06:31 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: SunkenCiv; usconservative

I want a TRUE multi-sensory experience of Egypt.

Such as a fully-immersive, true-physical-feeling of what it was like to be a Pharoah serviced by his many concubines.


19 posted on 09/09/2023 8:32:57 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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Hey, the Pharaohs would probably want a true multi-sensory experience of what it's like to be Laz. :^)

20 posted on 09/09/2023 8:34:59 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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