The world's oldest wine bottle has been found, with traces of gold polish hidden inside it. This vase-like bottle made of glass is said to be about 2,000 years old. The wine inside it was preserved by a seal, which prevented it from evaporating.
Archaeologists have found the world's oldest wine vessel. This 2,000-year-old glass jar or bottle for storing wine was found in a Roman tomb in the city of Carmona in Spain's Andalusia region. This wine jar was found during an excavation five years ago. Since then, research was being done on it, earlier this year experts confirmed that the liquid inside this vessel container was wine.
This wine was found in a grave, which must have been kept near the person during his funeral. A gold ring was also found near it, which is believed to be of the dead person. The image of the Roman god Janus was engraved on this ring.
Five liters of wine preserved for thousands of years
The jar named Ola Ossuria was filled with about five liters of preserved red liquid. The wine jar also contained three amber gems, a bottle of patchouli-scented perfume and some silk clothes. These things were found in 2019 when a local man was digging to build a house wall. When he found these things, he informed the local archaeological board about it.
Ruiz Arrebola, a chemist at the University of Cordoba, told Discover magazine that what was special about this discovery was that no one had accessed the tomb and all the material had remained sealed for 2,000 years. According to the researchers, nothing could have reached the inside of the jars through flooding or leakage in the tomb or through condensation.
Wine was kept with the body of a man
The body remains found by the team from the University of Cordoba belonged to a man because the Romans did not allow women to drink wine. It is believed that adding artefacts such as gold to graves was a typical Roman funeral ritual, so that the dead could use them in the afterlife.
Research revealed that the old wine dates back to the 4th century, making it the oldest wine discovered in the world. The tomb was a family tomb for Carmo locals at the time, reports Decanter. The sealed burial chamber had been untouched for 2,000 years and was largely intact.