A new, first-of-its-kind analysis of the scents of nine mummies detected woody, spicy, herbal and rancid notes, among other ...

Aromatic flavors like cloves, patchouli and pine resin clear the mind,” she adds. Earl of East offers a number of products from soaps to essential oils and incense that help fight ...

After thousands of years in the afterlife you might expect to stink like a moldy old scrotum, but as it turns out, ancient ...

According to a new study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, musty crypts and the decayed remains of ...

A recent study led by researchers from University College London (UCL) and the University of Ljubljana has revealed that the ...

Although some movies and media depict ancient people as unclean, that’s not entirely accurate. The ancients had hygiene ...

Agarwood is created when incense trees are cut, which causes the plant to produce a dark resin to prevent infection. The product then takes the form of fragrant resinous wood. The Hong Kong ...

Geneticist Zhang Huarong walks through the forest near his Hong Kong research lab, gesturing towards a rotting incense tree ...

He is a native English speaker. The fossilized remains of Whitebark pine trees found beneath a melting ice patch in the Yellowstone region were once part of an ancient forest that thrived for ...

I was standing in Garcia’s jungle-like garden in San Antonio, a small Mayan village in the western district of Cayo, in Belize. Bordering Guatemala, Cayo was in ancient times a center of Mayan ...