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Oldest wine ever discovered found in untouched Roman tomb [Video]

A 2,000-year-old Roman funerary urn unearthed in southern Spain has been shown to contain the oldest wine ever found still in liquid form.Related video above: Whale inside a whale eaten by a shark discoveredDiscovered during home renovations at a property in Carmona in 2019, the contents of the urn were analyzed by a team of scientists from the University of Cordoba in a study published on Monday.Study lead author José Rafael Ruiz Arrebola, a professor of organic chemistry at the university, told CNN that the urn was found to contain cremated remains, burned ivory thought to come from a funeral pyre and around 4.5 liters (1.2 gallons) of reddish liquid.“When the archaeologists opened the urn, we almost froze,” he said. “It was very surprising.”The team then carried out a chemical analysis of the liquid and found that it was wine.This was a big surprise, because wine normally evaporates quickly and …

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