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The Roman Empire smelled 2000 years ago of Indian fragrance of patchouli

May 28, 2023824 Views

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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Italy’s ‘Dying Town’ seeks UNESCO heritage nod

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April 6, 2021817 Views

Calling yourself “The Dying Town” may not sound like the best way of attracting visitors, but Civita has learned to make a living out of dying. And it has resisted definitive death for so long that Italy has nominated it and the surrounding area of stark cliffs and valleys known as “badlands” to be a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Centuries ago, the town was much larger and connected by road to other settlements. But landslides, earthquakes, cracks and erosion have reduced its size dramatically and left it sitting spectacularly alone at the top of a spur. When winter clouds are low, Civita looks like a floating castle in the air. On a clear day, the rock on which it rests looks like a slice of a multi-layered cake. Clay from an inland sea a million years ago supports strata o...