2,200-year old amphoras contained wine

[Don Giovanni]

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2,200-year old amphoras contained wine

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The Illyrian ships, suspected dating back to the 2nd century B.C., are known to historians only through Greek and Roman legends as their physical existence had never been established, Vasilj said.

[docsconz]

Alas, it seems as if the wine is gone given the phraseology used.

Parts of amphoras believed to be 2,200 years old uncovered in a Bosnia-Herzegovina swamp are suspected to have carried wine, experts said Monday.

[Daniel Rogov]

Nothing especially new or exciting here. Literallly hundreds of amphorae have been discovered in Israel, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus and Lebanon, many of which contained wine. What is relatively new and interesting are the DNA tests that are going on to determine from what grapes those wines were made, that in turn being utilized to discover those grapes that may have been indigenous to the Mediterranean Basin as long as 2 - 3,000 years ago.