Researchers at the Max Planck Institute have recently analyzed the footprints of the canopan boats of Senetnay, the nodriza of the faraio Amenhotep II, and have extracted a long list of substances: beeswax, vegetable oils, animal fat, bitumen, resin, cinnamon, peas, benzoic acid… This is proof of the degree of sophistication of the extensive mummification process and of the Egyptian commercial network.

In addition, with the help of the perfumer Carole Galvez, the perfume of this balm, called the “smell of eternity”, is reconstructed and, for the time being, visitors to the Moesgaard museum in Denmark have the opportunity to smell it.