Archeologists have found an urn of wine that is more than 2,000 years old, making it the oldest wine ever discovered.
Archeologists have found an urn of wine that is more than 2,000 years old, making it the 'oldest wine ever discovered,' researchers said in a new study. The glass funerary urn was found in a Roman tomb in Carmona, Spain , that archeologists first uncovered in 2019.A team of chemists at the University of Cordoba recently identified the wine as having been preserved since the first century, researchers said in a study published June 16 in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.
While the liquid had acquired a reddish hue, a series of chemical tests determined that, due to the absence of a certain acid, the wine was, in fact, white.'At first we were very surprised that liquid was preserved in one of the funerary urns,' Juan Manuel Román, the city of Carmona's municipal archaeologist, said in a news release.
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