A surprisingly well-preserved perfume ... Roman burial in the southern Spanish town of Carmona, once an important Roman settlement. Researchers unearthed an egg-shaped lead case that held a glass ...

Apothecary bottles go all the way back to the Roman era when they were used to store herbal extracts and oils.

The real smell of ancient Rome has been revealed as a sealed vial of Roman perfume dating from ... bitumen enabled the contents of the tiny glass container to be ‘extraordinarily’ preserved.

In a fascinating archaeological discovery, a valuable bottle of Roman perfume from around Jesus Christ's time was opened, revealing the sensorial world of wealthy ancient Romans. A significant ...

The shard of 1,800-year-old coloured glass, with a fish scale pattern, was found at Chedworth Roman Villa in 2017. Experts say it came from a bottle that may have contained perfume, and was ...

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GLOUCESTERSHIRE, ENGLAND—According to a report in The Guardian, a patterned green glass fragment unearthed at the site of Chedworth Roman ... bottle is thought to have held an exotic perfume.

Roman bottles were relatively uniform ... but certain substances that react to plastic — e.g., perfume — are still housed in glass. Bottle collecting remains an avid pastime for many ...