Archeology|The chemist suggested to the archaeologist that “small glasses” be taken, because based on the research, the wine would not have been poisonous.
World the oldest surviving wine seems to have originally been white wine, which has turned red over the millennia.
About 2,000 years old wine was found in a burial chamber in the town of Carmona in Andalusia, Spain in 2019. The five-liter portion of wine was stored in a glass urn.
Now the drink from the time of the Roman Empire has been carefully studied and the results published In Journal of Archaeological Science: Report.
From the liquid found in wine polyphenols toldthat the red-brown liquid is really wine and not, for example, condensed water in the container.
It is probably white wine, although it has changed color over time.
The drink turned out to be sherry-like, quite similar to the Andalusian wines of Montilla-Moriles, Jerez and Sanlúcar, specified the chemist who led the analysis José Rafael Ruis Arrebola in The Guardian.
He admitted that he had suggested to a fellow archaeologist that we take “small glasses” in honor of the discovery. Based on the research, the wine would not have been toxic in the slightest.
However, it would have been a bit creepy to taste it, because there were ashes from the bones of the deceased among the wine in the urn. He was buried with wine.
Down a sunken circular burial chamber was found when a Spanish family was doing construction work on their property five years ago.
The chamber was carved into the rock, and it had been preserved in good condition for two thousand years.
There were eight burial places in the walls, in six of which there was an urn. Each contained the remains of the cremated bones of one person.
The name of the deceased was written on two urns. They rested in them Hispanae and Senicio.
To the wine the soaked deceased was revealed to be a man. It was not a surprise to the researchers, because in ancient Rome, women were not allowed to drink wine.
A gold ring with a two-faced janus engraved on it was also found among the remains of bones and wine.
In another urn, the woman’s remains were accompanied by three pieces of amber jewelry and a perfume bottle that had contained patchouli essential oil. In addition, remains of fabric were found, which according to preliminary research could be silk.
Before since this discovery, the oldest surviving wine was in a Speyer wine bottle excavated from a Roman tomb near the German city of Speyer in 1867. It was 325 years old.
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