@PugJesusM to Historical ArtifactsEnglish • 4 days agoGlass perfume bottles in the shape of birds, Roman Empire, 1st century BCE/ADimagemessage-square23arrow-up1281arrow-down14
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•4 days agoIt feels wasteful and luxurious, but glass is more or less indefinitely recyclable.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•4 days agoAnd we’ll never know what the perfumes smell like because they’ll never be broken
minus-square@RestrictedAccountlinkEnglish5•4 days agoI’m not so sure. You could probably use spectroscopy to figure out what is in there now and then work out what form would have been in way back then.
Oh, what a gorgeous waste that is.
It feels wasteful and luxurious, but glass is more or less indefinitely recyclable.
And we’ll never know what the perfumes smell like because they’ll never be broken
I’m not so sure. You could probably use spectroscopy to figure out what is in there now and then work out what form would have been in way back then.
I’d definitely be curious to know