... The archaeologists of the Franciscan academic society Studium Biblicum Franciscanum found the unopened vases dating to the first century AD conserved in mud at the bottom of a swimming pool in Magdala's thermal complex.
If they were unopened they weren't the ones she used. She broke hers open and poured out the perfumed ointment.
He said “they could be SIMILAR to those used by Mary Magdalene in the Gospels to anoint the feet of Christ.”
I guess they mean she may have used that KIND of perfume (like the noxema comment). But they wrapped it in the kind of propagandistic, drive-by double talk that we’ve all grown to know and detest.