{"id":192566,"date":"2025-03-01T14:55:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T12:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-myrrh-conifer-oil-and-breakfast-tea-my-sniffer-teams-surprise-findings-on-what-mummified-bodies-smell-like\/"},"modified":"2025-03-01T14:55:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T12:55:54","slug":"egypt-myrrh-conifer-oil-and-breakfast-tea-my-sniffer-teams-surprise-findings-on-what-mummified-bodies-smell-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-myrrh-conifer-oil-and-breakfast-tea-my-sniffer-teams-surprise-findings-on-what-mummified-bodies-smell-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: &#8216;Myrrh, Conifer Oil and &#8230; Breakfast Tea&#8217; &#8211; My Sniffer Team&#8217;s Surprise Findings On What Mummified Bodies Smell Like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">When we see objects in museum display cases, it often doesn&#8217;t tell their whole story. One thing that tends to get ignored or even lost in the conservation process is the smell. We lose a lot of valuable information as a result, such as how the object was produced or how it functioned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">My field is called sensory heritage, which relates to how we engage with heritage objects with senses other than vision. As part of this, I develop methods to identify and preserve culturally significant smells.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">For&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502250167.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we see objects in museum display cases, it often doesn&#8217;t tell their whole story. One thing that tends to get ignored or even lost in the conservation process is the smell. We lose a lot of valuable information as a result, such as how the object was produced or how it functioned. My field [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":192567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,9428,16917,50756,4697,415,10003,37927,50755,257,4221,28886,50757,254,4366,18389,8492],"class_list":["post-192566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bodies","tag-breakfast","tag-conifer","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-findings","tag-mummified","tag-myrrh","tag-news","tag-oil","tag-smell","tag-sniffer","tag-south-africa-today","tag-surprise","tag-tea","tag-teams"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}