{"id":94300,"date":"2022-04-29T17:05:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T15:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=94300"},"modified":"2022-04-20T08:21:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T06:21:32","slug":"11-05-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=94300","title":{"rendered":"Modern technology records smells meant to accompany ancient Egyptians into afterlife"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Modern technology records smells meant to accompany ancient Egyptians into afterlife<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

JUDITH SUDILOVSKY <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Transportable mass spectrometer detected and analyzed scents in non-invasive way.<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Researchers captured volotaile molecules (smell) from organic material from an Egyptian tomb using pastic bag for a week before measuring them with cutting-edge technology. \/ (photo credit: EGIZIO MUSEUM OF TURIN)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Ancient Egyptians<\/a> sent off their dead into the afterlife accompanied by jars of beeswax, dried fish, ritual ointments and other foods, according to a study by Italian researchers<\/a> using cutting-edge technology which analyzed the scent of foods left in jars 3,400 years ago in an Egyptian tomb.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The research was conducted on 50 intact vessels from the rich burial assemblage of two high ranking individuals in the Deir el-Medina Necropolis at Luxor, West Bank, the \u201cchief-of-works,\u201d or foreman, Kha and his wife, Merit, who lived during the second half of 18th dynasty, about 1450\u20131400 BCE.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Discovered in 1906 and now preserved at the Egizio Museum in Turin<\/a>, Italy, the collection constitutes the most abundant, complete, and well-preserved non-royal Egyptian burial assemblage ever found.<\/span><\/p>\n

As an added bonus, the tomb had never been plundered because it had been sealed shut by a landslide in ancient times.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fortunately, the discoverer of the tomb and director of the Egizio Museum, Ernesto Schiaparelli, conducted limited investigations on a few non-unique items, leaving most of the assemblage untouched. This farsighted decision has enabled contemporary scholars to study such exceptional archaeological findings with non-invasive approaches that could not have been foreseen at the time, the researchers noted in their report which appeared in the recent edition of Journal of Archaeological<\/a> Science.<\/span><\/p>\n

Researchers used cutting-edge noninvasive SIFT mass-spectrometer to analyize the volatile organic molecules–the scent–of organic remains from a 3,400 year old Egyptian tomb (credit: EGIZIO MUSEUM OF TURIN)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Using a transportable mass spectrometer, known by the initials SIFT-MS, the researchers were able to show that the volatile compounds\u2014the scent\u2014still emitted by organic materials in the vessels can be chemically analyzed and detected in a completely non-invasive way directly in museums without having to move the valuable items.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe experimental design and the analytical approach that we used does not need to sample the investigated material itself, because the SIFT-MS analyses the volatile organic molecules that are in the air that is in contact with the material,\u201d explained researcher Francesca Modugno of the department of chemistry and industrial chemistry of the University of Pisa.  \u201cWe concentrated the released volatiles by enclosing the vessels in inert plastic bags for about one week before the measurements.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The researchers said this proved that the use of this technology is a reliable fast-screening method for archaeological investigations directly in museums, allowing for the unique possibility of extending the research of vessels and jars<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIdentifying the materials associated to burial assemblages provides a unique possibility to complement, confirm and extend the archaeological research on ancient rituals and on the use and purpose of archaeological vessels and jars,\u201d said Modugno.   <\/span><\/p>\n

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The ability to analyze  the released volatile molecules  gives information on their chemical composition and the nature, of the material emitting the smell, she said, so that researchers can learn more about which materials were included in the burial assemblage without sampling them.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cSampling such type of archaeological objects is absolutely impossible, they are unique and generally too precious to be submitted to extensive conventional destructive chemical analysis,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The research is part of a larger international research project begun in 2017 by the Egizio Museum in honor of the bicentennial of the collection in 2024, which aims to publish a digital data repository and a full study of the tomb.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Modern technology records smells meant to accompany ancient Egyptians into afterlife JUDITH SUDILOVSKY Transportable mass spectrometer detected and analyzed scents in non-invasive way. Researchers captured volotaile molecules (smell) from organic material from an Egyptian tomb using pastic bag for a week before measuring them with cutting-edge technology. \/ (photo credit: EGIZIO MUSEUM OF TURIN) Ancient Egyptians sent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94300"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94483,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94300\/revisions\/94483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}