Spirits from the past: scientists told about aromas of Ancient Rome

Two thousand years ago in the Roman city of Karmo (today's Carmona), to Province of Seville, someone placed a vessel with ointment in a funeral ballot box. Twenty centuries later research group FQM346 from Universities Province of Córdoba under the leadership of professor of organic chemistry José Ruis Raphael Arrebol chemically described components of the spirits dated by the I century of our era. So scientists allowed the world "to feel a smell" the fallen Roman Empire...