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Researchers noninvasively analyze volatile organic compounds in the air around 19 mummies (35 samples) to identify embalming ingredients and how recipes changed from fats/oils in early periods to beeswax, resins, and bitumen by the New Kingdom, using headspace SPME with GC-MS; the study links scent, trade, and ritual beliefs while offering a rapid screening method that preserves the artefacts.
UK researchers used a non-destructive VOC sniffing method with GC-MS to study 35 samples from 19 mummies dating roughly from 2000 BC to AD 295, linking fats/oils, beeswax, resins, plant oils, and bitumen to evolving embalming recipes and showing volatile analysis as a rapid, minimally invasive way to date and study mummy chemistry without damaging the remains.
The shark responsible for killing a Russian man in Egypt will be preserved and placed in a museum, according to reports. Specialists at the Institute of Marine Sciences and the Red Sea Reserves are embalming the shark and preparing a scientific report on its lethal behavior. The victim's body parts were extracted from the shark's stomach, and the lower half of his body was retrieved from the waters off the Hurghada resort.