Carmona Wine Survived Two Millennia

In 2019, house renovations at 53 Sevilla Street in Carmona, Spain, exposed an unlooted first-century Roman mausoleum containing a glass urn with five liters of liquid. The urn held the liquid alongside cremated human remains and a gold ring. Five years later, researchers identified it as wine made during the first century AD, making it the world's oldest surviving liquid wine and surpassing the previous record by three centuries. Chemical analysis showed that the now-reddish wine had originally been white.

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