WINE
A 1600 year old bottle of wine found
by German excavators is the oldest
known wine in existence that is still in
liquid state. It was discovered in one
of two sarcophaguses, alongside
many other bottles that had long
since dried up and this particular
bottle stayed wet because of the olive
oil used (in place of a cork) to protect
the wine from oxidizing. The contents
are both waxy and silty, and the
alcohol content is, of course, long
gone.
BREAD
Supposedly 5500 years old,
this overcooked bread was
found in Oxfordshire, England
and initially mistaken for
charcoal till the archaeologists
found crushed barley inside.
This would probably have been
made by the first people who
entered Britain from Europe.
The bread was found in a large
hole filled with water among
other Neolithic materials.
BUTTER
In 2009, archaeologists discovered 3000
years old butter in Ireland near a Kildare
bog. Amazingly, it was intact but had turned
to a fatty white wax called adipocere. Today,
it is stored at the National Museum of
Ireland and has been declared as a national
treasure in Ireland.
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