Archaeologists in Spain have discovered the world’s oldest known liquid wine in an unexpected place: mixed with ashes inside a Roman-era funerary urn, a new study finds. The wine, which the scientists described as “reddish liquid” in appearance, was found in a roughly 2,000-year-old tomb during a house construction project in Carmona, a town in […]
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Scientists Discover World’s Oldest Wine, a 2000-Year-Old White Wine that Contains a Man’s Ashes
Scientists discovered a 2000-year-old white wine inside an urn that also contained a man’s ashes in a Roman tomb in Spain Juan Manuel Roman/ Journal of Archaeological Science Worlds Oldest Wine discovered in an urn Researchers have discovered the world’s oldest wine in a Roman burial site in Spain. The drink contains a surprising ingredient […]
2,000-year-old rock art, including nearly 140-foot-long snake, may mark ancient territories in Colombia, Venezuela
Archaeologists have fully mapped a series of ancient rock art in Venezuela and Colombia, including the world’s largest monumental engraving, using photography and drone footage. The masterpieces, which feature both human and animal motifs, are prominently located along the Upper and Middle Orinoco River, which snakes through this region of South America. Researchers think the […]
2,000-year-old gold jewelry from mysterious culture discovered in Kazakhstan
Archaeologists have unearthed gold jewelry, arrowheads, and a large, bronze mirror from roughly 2,000-year-old burial mounds in the Turkistan region of southern Kazakhstan. The artifacts are thought to have been made at the time of the Kangju state, a little-known entity that ruled the region between the fifth century B.C. and the fourth century A.D. […]
A 13-year-old built a ‘death ray’ using a 2,000-year-old concept from Greek inventor Archimedes
Over 2,000 years ago Greek inventor Archimedes supposedly set fire to invading ships with mirrors. To test the possibility, a middle-school student designed an experiment for his science fair. Using light bulbs and mirrors, he created a scaled-down version and found it was possible. Legends about the ingenuity of Greek inventor and mathematician Archimedes were […]
Words from an ancient philosopher deciphered from a 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. After using artificial intelligence to uncover the first word to be read from an unopened Herculaneum scroll, a team of researchers has revealed several nearly complete passages from the ancient text, giving insight into philosophy from […]
2,000-year-old scroll preserved by a volcano is finally readable. What does it say?
How do you read a 2,000-year-old roll of paper that is too fragile to be opened and too charred to be legible? In short: How do you read the unreadable? That was the paradox posed by a volcanically preserved ancient library — and the riddle recently solved by a team of students. When Mount Vesuvius […]
2,000-year-old ‘celestial calendar’ discovered in ancient Chinese tomb
Wooden slips marked with Chinese characters that relate to the traditional Tiangan Dizhi astronomical calendar. Archaeologists in China have unearthed a mysterious set of rectangular wooden pieces linked to an ancient astronomical calendar. The artifacts were discovered inside an exceptionally well-preserved 2,000-year-old tomb in the southwest of the country. Each of the 23 wooden slips […]