(WJW) – Scientists in Spain have discovered the world’s oldest wine, a 2,000-year-old white wine containing the ashes of a man.
According to rresearchers at the University of Córdoba who published their discovery Tuesday in the Journal of Archaeological Science, the wine was found in an urn in an ancient tomb in Carmona, a southwestern city in Spain.
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According to the reportthe Roman tomb was originally discovered in 2019 and had a person named Hispana, Senicio and four others, two men and two women whose names are unknown.
According to the researchers, as part of a ritual at the time, “the skeletal remains of one of the men were immersed in a liquid in a glass funerary urn. This liquid, which has acquired a reddish hue over time, has been preserved since the 1st century AD. C.”
Juan Manuel Romanmthe municipal archaeologist of the Carmona City Council, led a team from the Organic Chemistry Department of the University of Córdoba to this discovery and identified it as the oldest wine discovered to date, replacing the Speyer wine bottle discovered in 1867 and dated. to the 4th century AD.
“At first we were very surprised that there was liquid in one of the funerary urns,” says Románm said in the report.
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According to the researchersthe condition of the grave was preserved and tightly sealed, allowing the wine to retain its natural state.
“The fact that wine covered the skeletal remains of a man is no coincidence,” says the report said. “Women in ancient Rome were for a long time forbidden to taste wine. It was a man thing.”
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