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Episode: EP200 | 🧟♂️木乃伊好「吸」奇
Description: How much are you willing to go in the name of science? Are you willing to take a sniff at a 5000-year-old mummy? Thousands of years ago, the ancient Egyptians mummified(做成木乃伊)their important societal figures(社會重要人物)after they died. In order to know how well-preserved(保存良好)are the mummies, or to put it more bluntly, in order to know whether the bodies underneath layers of wrapping have started to rot, scientists decided to put them to a smelling test(氣味測試). The researchers used a technique called gas chromatography(氣相層析法)which could separate(分離)the different scents(氣味)inside the sarcophagus(石棺), a stone coffin. And to their surprises(驚訝), most of the mummies actually smelled quite pleasant. Sure that some...