World’s oldest known evidence of winemaking discovered in Georgia
Historians have always considered Georgia as the cradle of winemaking, while their southern Mesopotamian neighbors were adept at crafting beer. And now archaeology bolsters this…
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5000-year old ancient pottery reveals world’s oldest known Italian wine
A few days ago, we talked about how beer made from standardized recipes was widely consumed in Mesopotamia, by circa 5th millennium BC. Well, now…
The world’s oldest unopened wine bottle is an almost 1,700 years old Roman ‘artifact’
Previously in Realm of History, we had covered a variety of world’s oldest stuff, ranging from bizarre masks to prosthetic limbs. Well this time around,…
The oldest grape found in Denmark alludes to earlier Bronze Age contact between Scandinavia and southern Europe
While the specimen in question is described to be ‘broken and charred and shabby’, it can very well change our history-based perceptions about Europe in…
