Researchers have found chemical evidence of wine consumption in ancient Troy, confirming a theory by Heinrich Schliemann.

Based on organic residues – imperceptible to the naked eye and detectable only at a molecular level – bronze age wine ...

He poured the drink, going from right to left, for all the other gods, drawing off sweet nectar from the mixing bowl.” It ...

One artifact was popular among Greek aristocrats, suggesting the burial site belonged to someone with high social status, ...

The kylix drinking cup in ancient Greek symposiums revealed who was an aristocrat and who didn’t belong to the elite circle.

Sail through the heart of the Pacific Northwest wine region. Sip wine on a river cruise through Bordeaux. These itineraries ...

In ancient Greece, wealthy men often ... be truly intoxicated only at the end of the night. Wine was sometimes mixed in a special vessel, a psykter, filled with cold water or even snow, to chill ...

This limited the amount of oxygen that entered the site, helping to preserve its contents, including the ancient wine. The relatively cold temperature of the tomb might have also aided in slowing ...

Greek archaeologists confirmed that it was excavated in 1910 from a tomb at the ancient cemetery of Kerameikos in Athens, near the Acropolis. The vessel was removed from a Greek museum under ...

A team of researchers from the universities of Tübingen, Bonn, and Jena has conclusively demonstrated that wine was consumed ...