The mission found special perfume-making ovens and murals that demonstrate how workers extracted liquid scents out of flowers. The village was a world-renowned perfume-making center, shipping their bottled products to be sold all around the world as well as the rest of Egypt, as further explained by Dr. Stein.
— Archaeologists have discovered what they are calling the world's oldest perfume factory in the Dakahlia governorate, east of Cairo. Read more at World's Oldest Village and Perfumery Found in Egypt at Cairo Scene.