• Chemistry for Cultural Heritage 2026

    |January 29th, 2026|

    The Chemistry for Cultural Heritage Working Party of the EuChemS (European Chemical Society) is delighted to announce the 8th Conference on Chemistry for Cultural Heritage to be held in Bled, Slovenia, from 8-11 June 2026! The ChemCH conference series has been organised biannually since 2010 by the EuChemS Working Party on Chemistry for Cultural Heritage. With the [...]

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  • Smell of Egyptian Mummified Bodies Prized as “the Most Excellent Research Achievement”

    |January 29th, 2026|

    Every year, the University of Ljubljana selects ten most prominent research achievements among the proposals received from its faculties, based on aspects including impact, comprehensiveness, and applicability. This year, our research on ancient Egyptian mummified bodies: an interdisciplinary analysis of their smell was selected as one of them. The aim of our research was to [...]

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  • Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies smell ‘woody,’ ‘spicy’ and ‘sweet’

    |July 29th, 2025|

    Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies smell ‘woody,’ ‘spicy’ and ‘sweet’, finds a new study led by researchers from the University of Ljubljana, revealing new details about mumification practices. The research, published in Journal of the American Chemical Society, is the first time that the smells of mummified bodies have been systematically studied combining a mix of [...]

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