Posted on 09/06/2018 10:56:14 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The age of the Speyer wine bottle is epic, estimated at around 1,650 years. Its makers did well by sealing it with hot wax and splashing it with olive oil, which is how the bottle, containing a presumably once drinkable white wine, has maintained the liquid inside it... Microbiologists have recommended not opening the wine and the same opinion was shared by the museum's wine department curator, Ludger Tekampe, who in the past stated that if the bottle were to be opened, "We are not sure whether or not it could stand the shock of the air." ..finding the Speyer Wine in the grave of a Roman noble in 1867, in the Rhineland-Palatine region of Germany... The antique bottle took its name from the city of Speyer, which was located in close proximity to the tomb it was found in. The nobleman, along with his wife, had been buried there with the wine around 350 AD, and archaeologists were utterly baffled when they realized the bottle still contained liquid. To date, the wine is considered the earliest known liquid wine ever excavated from an archaeological site anywhere in the world... the identity of the nobleman... suggests that he was a Roman Legionnaire... A chemist analyzed the Speyer bottle during World War I, but he did not dare to open it and after that, the wine was stored in the German museum in Speyer. While many scientists have hoped to obtain permission to analyze the bottle's contents thoroughly, nobody has been granted one yet.
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If I do throw on some Genesis (which is now unusual), it's always from the PG era. The shift to PC was analogous to the shift in the Doobie Bros' sound when "Living on the Fault Line" came out, or when Steely Dan issued "Aja". Oh wow, Norton Buffalo played on LotFL.
Ew! That was a moth larvae?!?
Leo Kottke- Sonora’s Death Row
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_KAR07VrVk
worlds oldest vinegar
Only if they were Muslims... ;o]
Hail hail the cork master, master of the cork...
5.56mm
Like to hear it,
I actually saw this bottle in the museum. Beautiful place, Speyer!
Just a few kilometers up the Rhine River, on the western side, are a series of oxbow lakes and sloughs, swamps and marshes that make up a huge nature reserve. My German friend had a canoe and we went out there many times and explored and discovered quite a bit things, both manmade, ancient and new, and natural.
We went out on the Rhine once, and canoe bobbed and swayed by the many ships and big barges going up and down. Too much and we got into another lake!
:^) There’s a fun vignette from Two and a Half Men where the brothers are on the deck and brother Alan starts to pretend they are Ernest and Julio Gallo.
Sounds like a fun time!
LOL, this is a funny bit from “You’re The Worst”, about the argument between Peter Gabriel or Phil Collins...
Define “worked”.
BTW, Colt 45 reeks. how does one drink it?
I think the “woman” in the photo with Billy D. says it all.
It’s amazing that the technology to make that bottle was around 1700 years ago.
How much have we lost, only to have to reinvent it again?
Think about the Roman cement, that we still to this day cannot duplicate.
Pricey vinegar.
That gooey solid-looking thing is the oil -- it's actaully Caesar dressing..
That gooey solid-looking thing is the oil -- it's actaully Caesar dressing..
Glassmaking has been around a good long while. I highly recommend the Corning Museum of Glass (although I’ve only been there once, and it was a long time ago).
https://www.cmog.org/collection
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/romanconcrete/index?tab=articles
If you put that stuff on your salad, be sure your health insurance is paid up!
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