Greysky wrote:
"Double-A" wrote in message
oups.com...
Jars of the most ancient wine ever discovered have been found in
Egypt.
Scientists have dated the vintage to be about 5,000 years old.
Talk
about mellow! Two hundred jars of both beer and wine were
unearthed.

Experts plan to study the wine and beer extensively to extract as
much
information as they can, before the inevitable party!


http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercu...h/11680276.htm

Double-A


Sorry Double-A. but the stuff in those clay jars wont be drinkable.
the jars
used before the advent of glass were very porous and drinkable
alcohol goes
sour within months. I think its a miracle that there is anything at
all left
in them - probably due to the circumstance of their burial.

Greysky


I think all they found was some residue, but I thought it sounded
funnier the way I told it.

According to what I heard on the television news, they found the
residue of a certain kind of acid that is characteristic of wine in
some of the jars.

In case you can't get to the site I gave without a sing-up hassle, here
is what it says:


"Ancient beer, wine jars found in Egypt

Associated Press


CAIRO, Egypt - Archaeologists digging in a 5,000-year-old site in
southern Egypt have unearthed 200 rough ceramic beer and wine jars and
a second mud-brick mortuary enclosure of King Hur-Aha the founder of
the First Dynasty, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said
Wednesday.

A joint American excavation mission from Yale University, Institute of
Fine Arts, the Pennsylvania University Museum and New York Universities
found the treasure Wednesday at Shunet El-Zebib, north of Abydos in the
Upper Egyptian city of Sohag."


Double-A