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 ...

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.

The real smell of ancient Rome has been revealed after a sealed vial of Roman perfume dating from around ... enabled the contents of the tiny glass container to be maintained.

Due to the perfume’s rarity and the material of its container, the team thinks that its owners were likely wealthy. “In Roman times, quartz vessels were very rare luxury objects, several of ...

The 2,000 year old glass urn was discovered ... a patchouli-scented perfume bottle, and silk fabric remnants. These artefacts were placed in the tomb according to Roman beliefs about what the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some of the ancient Roman ... wine, perfume, or other materials. Some of them may have been used during feasting rituals to commemorate the burial. But one of the glass containers from the site ...