To truly get to know a place, is to smell it, so what did the ancient cities of Rome, Athens, and Thebes smell like? Barbara Huber is an archaeologist at Germany's Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. She's on a mission to advance the science of olfactory archaeology so we can better understand how ancient peoples navigated and interpreted their world.

What did ancient Egypt smell like?

This program is no longer in production. Making sense of Australia’s place in the world, Between the Lines puts contemporary international issues and events into a broader historical context, seeking out original perspectives and challenging accepted wisdom.

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This program is no longer in production. Making sense of Australia’s place in the world, Between the Lines puts contemporary international issues and events into a broader historical context, seeking out original perspectives and challenging accepted wisdom.

This program is no longer in production.&nbsp;Making sense of Australia’s place in the world, Between the Lines puts contemporary international issues and events into a broader historical context, seeking out original perspectives and challenging accepted wisdom.

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What did ancient Egypt smell like?

What did ancient Egypt smell like?