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A New Database Captures the Smells of European History, from 16th-Century to the Early 20th-Century

Developed by an international team of computer scientists, AI experts and humanities scholars, the Smell Explorer is a vast compendium of smells as represented in 23,000 images and 62,000 public domain texts, including novels, theatrical scripts, travelogues, botanical textbooks, court records, sanitary reports, sermons, and medical handbooks.

This resource offers a fresh lens for considering the past through our noses, an unflinching look at various olfactory realities of life in Europe from the 15th through early 20th centuries.

https://www.openculture.com/2023/12/a-new-database-captures-the-smells-of-european-history.html