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Showing posts with label wine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wine. Show all posts
Saturday, February 10, 2018

Beer Over Wine? New Find Indicates Bronze Age Greeks Imbibed Both Beverages!

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Ancient Origins Wine wasn’t the only drink popular with ancient Greeks, according to a new report. The discovery of two Bronze Age brew...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018

The history of middle-class wine drinking

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History Extra Should politicians tell people what and how much to drink? Recent government decisions to try and impose a minimum price...
Friday, September 15, 2017

6,000-Year-Old Cave Find Shows Sicilians Made Wine Way Before Previously Thought

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Ancient Origins Researchers have found traces of wine in Sicily dating back to the 4th millennium BC. According to experts, that could ...
Friday, May 19, 2017

No One Questions that Vikings Drank; But Did They Make Wine?

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Ancient Origins Further evidence that the Vikings weren’t just beer-swilling, raping, and pillaging savages comes out of Denmark with t...
Friday, January 27, 2017

King Richard III Feasted on Wine and Swans

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Seeker BY ROSSELLA LORENZI  In the last three years of his life, King Richard III consumed up to three liters of alcohol per day and ...
Sunday, April 17, 2016

Ancient Roman Elite Made Wine When not at War

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Ancient Origins Archaeologists have uncovered a unique insight into the life of one of the Roman Empire’s most prominent landowners. Unt...
Thursday, January 28, 2016

Beer Before Wine: Research Shows that Spain was a Beer Country First

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Ancient Origins A Colorado State University professor says he wants to write a book on caelia—an ancient Spanish beer that was replaced ...
Wednesday, January 14, 2015

How to Recreate a Sloppy Ancient Greek Drinking Game

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by Megan Gannon Live Science A man plays kottabos in the artwork on this terraco...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

World's Oldest Wine Cellar Fueled Palatial Parties

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By Megan Gannon This ancient wine cellar at Tel Kabri was likely abandoned after a ...
Monday, August 11, 2014

Chianti Wine Ancestor Found

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by Rossella Lorenzi Waterlogged grape seeds retrieved from the Cetamura well. ...