Project Odeuropa hopes to document, recreate, and store the smells of old Europe in an accessible online library.

If they had to guess, scientists think historic Europe may have smelled like tobacco or experimental plague remedies. And now, they are working to identify more of these smells and archive them in a digital library.

According to the The Guardian , a team of European scientists from various fields, including artificial intelligence, have banded together to work on an ambitious project called “Odeuropa.”

Their primary objective is to identify certain odors reminiscent of Europe between the 16th and early 20th centuries, document them, make them accessible to the public online, and then potentially employ them at various museums.

But in order to determine what exactly each

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