Wine Archive
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The discovery of a 2,000-year-old Roman tomb in Carmona, Spain, has led to a significant archaeological find. Inside the tomb, the skeletal remains
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient Romans loved wine. It is estimated that an average male in the ancient Roman Empire consumed about a liter or more of
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AncientPages.com - It is no secret that the Romans were heavy wine drinkers. Estimates put the average Roman male's consumption at a liter or more of diluted wine per day.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Um Al-Qaab archaeological site in Abydos in Sohag Governorate, Egypt, have discovered hundreds of 5,000-year-old well-preserved wine jars and grave
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AncientPages.com - The ancient Romans venerated wine. It was accessible to the masses, a fundamental staple of mainstream life and an indispensable part of the Roman economy and
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While examining the sides of 15 ceramic jars, used for wine and olive oil storage in two buildings in the City of David,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Being a wine taster may sound like an enjoyable profession to many but as we all know drinking too much can give you
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists report an archaeological sensation in Yavne, Israel. The Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced archaeologists have unearthed the world's largest wine factory from the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek- AncientPages.com - On the morning of August 24, 79 A.D. Mount Vesuvius in southern Italy erupted. It was one of the largest volcanic explosions in recorded
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Archaeology
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in Rome, Italy have unearthed a magnificent 2,000-year-old marble head of God Dionysus, also known as Bacchus, the ancient god of wine
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Followers of the Greek party god Dionysus (in Greek: Dionysos) certainly knew how to enjoy themselves. The god Dionysus was very popular in ancient
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Ancient History Facts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - While pulque (“Drink of the Gods”) is Mexico’s oldest alcoholic beverage of the Maya, Aztecs, Huastec and other cultures in ancient Mesoamerica, posca
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Researchers have discovered 400-year-old documents that reveal Tadatoshi Hosokawa, a 17th-century lord of Kyusyu, Japan, ordered his people to produce opium for medical purposes. A description of
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