The Scent of an Ancient Egyptian Woman
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In its permanent exhibition, Bonn University’s Egyptian Museum has a particularly well preserved example of a perfume flacon on display. Screening this 3,500-year-old flacon with a computer tomograph, scientists at the university has detected the desiccated residues of a fluid, which they now want to submit to further analysis. They might even succeed in reconstructing this scent.
The filigree flacon now under examination by the researchers in Bonn bears an inscription with the name of Pharaoh Hatshepsut. Hence it was probably once in her possession. The vessel is exceptionally well preserved.
The scientists in Bonn are even hoping to “reconstruct” the perfume so that, 3,500 years after the death of the woman amongst whose possessions it was found, the scent could then be revitalized.
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