Scientists have played 3200-year-old Mesopotamian perfumes based on ancient text (photo)

Researchers were able to successfully reproduce one of the aromas of the first perfume female in the world of Tapput. About 3200 years ago, a woman named Tapputa became famous as the first chemical woman in Mesopotamia and the first female perfume in the world. Working with the formula of Mesopotamian perfumes left on an ancient clay plate, which was made by Tapputa, the team of scientists successfully reproduced one of its aromas in the laboratory, writes Ancient Origins.

Turkish scientists conducted a wide study of Mesopotamian methods of making Tapputa perfumes. Their goal was to first understand what she was doing and then reproduce her work as much as possible. Now they have partially achieved their goal, although the efforts to translate and interpret the aromas will continue. Archaeologists have found the name of Tapputi on a pair of cuneiform tablets found during excavations in southern Turkey.

On the tablets, her full name was a Tapuputa-Beltekalim, where Beltekalim means "female palace female. " The plates were dated 1200 BC. On the Tapput tablets, she recorded the formulas of her perfumes and the detailed steps she used to create aromas, ancient Akkadian. Fortunately, scientists know this language enough so that it can be translated what it wrote.

So experts learned that to produce their ancient perfumes, Tapputi used a combination of different types of flowers, oils, air, sits, myrri, horseradish, spices and balm, and these are just some of the identified ingredients. She mixed her Varev with water or other solvents, overtook them, and then filtered the liquid product many times to create a cleaner formula of Mesopotamian perfume, which smells pleasantly. Scientists were able to completely reproduce one of the formulas of its aroma.