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London Dungeon's new scent of history: burning flesh

Visitors to the London Dungeon can today experience a scent which has not been unleashed on the streets for 300 years — the smell of burning human flesh.

The synthetic smell has been created for the Bloody Mary Killer Queen exhibit to try to convey what it would have been like to attend a public burning.

Queen Mary I ordered the deaths of 300 Protestants and religious dissenters by burning at the stake during her reign from 1553 to 1558.

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