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We Never Found Cleopatra's Body, but His Perfume Was Recreated (and It Smells Divinely Good)

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Imagine being able to feel exactly what Cleopatra was wearing more than two thousand years ago. This fantasy came true in 2018, when two researchers succeeded in reconstructing the legendary fragrance of the Queen of Egypt. But this scientific prowess reveals much more than just a forgotten fragrance: it reveals how the smell shaped [...]
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Imagine being able to feel exactly what Cleopatra was wearing more than two thousand years ago. This fantasy came true in 2018, when two researchers succeeded in reconstructing the legendary fragrance of the Queen of Egypt. But this scientific prowess reveals much more than just a forgotten fragrance: it reveals how the smell shaped [...]

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SciencePost broke the news in on Saturday, January 31, 2026.
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