Ancient Roman burial site yields oldest known wine

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The world’s oldest bottle of wine was recently found in an ancient Roman burial site in southern Spain, as reported in a study published this week. The wine was discovered in a glass funeral urn inside an ancient mausoleum that had been untouched for about 2,000 years in the town of Carmona, Andalusia. In 2019, a family came across the sunken tomb while renovating their home.

The urn containing the wine had a reddish liquid inside, which was confirmed to be wine after a series of tests were conducted by a team of researchers. The team was surprised by the preservation of the liquid in the funerary urn and noted that the conservation conditions of the tomb were exceptional, having been sealed for two millennia.

The study conducted by the team, including the City of Carmona’s municipal archaeologist and the Department of Organic Chemistry at the University of Cordoba, was published in the Journal of Archaeological Science. This discovery surpasses the previous record held by the Speyer wine bottle from the fourth century AD, now preserved at the Historical Museum of Pfalz in Germany.

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