A research group at Cordoba University has, for the initial instance, determined the formulation of a 2,000-year-old Roman fragrance due to uncovering a petite ointment container in Carmona. (a) Access to the funeral chamber; (b) funeral chamber; (c) loculi 7 and 8; (d) glass urn containing remains and unguentarium. In the ancient Roman settlement of Carmo, present-day Carmona in Seville province, an individual deposited an ointment vessel within a burial urn two millennia ago. Fast forward twenty centuries, and the FQM346 research team, under the leadership of Professor José Rafael Ruiz Arrebola, an expert in Organic Chemistry at the University of Cordoba, collaborated with the City of Carmona to unravel the chemical composition of a first-century AD perfume. The findings were p...
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