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Archaeologists in Carmona, Spain, tested a reddish liquid preserved for two millennia inside a Roman funerary urn discovered in a family's backyard.
Chemists at the University of Cordoba analyzed a reddish liquid that had spent roughly two thousand years inside a sealed Roman funerary urn, immersing a man's cremated remains, and confirmed through chemical markers that it was decayed white wine, making it the oldest wine ever found still in liquid form anywhere in the world.
It wasn't perfume or olive oil, both of which would have left very different chemical signatures — the specific markers detected pointed clearly to wine that had chemically broken down over the centuries while still trapped inside the sealed vessel.
Wine played a significant ceremonial role in Roman funerary customs, and this remarkable find came not from a formal excavation but from a family's ordinary backyard in Carmona, Spain, a reminder of how much Roman history still lies just beneath everyday ground.
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