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King Tut Drank Red Wine, Researcher Says
ap on Yahoo ^ | 10/26/05 | JENN WIANT - ap

Posted on 10/26/2005 3:39:02 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

LONDON - King Tutankhamen was a red wine drinker, according to a researcher who analyzed traces of the vintage found in his tomb. Maria Rosa Guasch-Jane told reporters Wednesday at the British Museum that she made her discovery after inventing a process that gave archaeologists a tool to discover the color of ancient wine.

"This is the first time someone has found an ancient red wine," she said.

Wine bottles from King Tut's time were labeled with the name of the product, the year of harvest, the source and the vine grower, Guasch-Jane said, but did not include the color of the wine.

Several clues led scientists to believe the wine may have been red: drawings from the time of grapes being pressed into wine were red and purple, for example. But the color of King Tut's wine was impossible to verify until Guasch-Jane invented a process to detect a color compound not found in white wine called syringic acid.

To test her method, Guasch-Jane scraped residue from wine jars owned by the British Museum and the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Two of the jars came from King Tut's tomb, discovered by English archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922.

Patrick McGovern, an American molecular archaeologist, said he has discovered grape residue in northern Iran that dates winemaking to 5400 B.C.

Scientists believe the first wine discovered in Egypt, buried in King Scorpion's tomb in about 3125 B.C., was produced in Jordan and transported 500 miles by donkey and boat to Egypt, he said. Eventually, grapevines were planted in Egypt.

Research shows that ancient Egyptian kings and members of the upper class drank wine regularly, but common people consumed it only during festivals and special occasions, Guasch-Jane said.

Wine was offered to gods in ceremonies, and kings were buried with jars of wine and food similar to what they consumed when they were alive, she said.

Guasch-Jane first reported her findings in the academic journal Analytical Chemistry last year.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 18thdynasty; agriculture; amarna; ancientautopsies; archaeology; drank; earlofcarnarvon; egypt; godsgravesglyphs; grapes; history; howardcarter; kingtut; oenology; patrickmcgovern; redwine; researcher; syringicacid; winemaking; zymurgy
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To: SunkenCiv

bottoms up!


41 posted on 10/26/2005 6:01:52 PM PDT by ValerieUSA
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To: LA Woman3

"He should have stuck to the Welch's.... It has done wonders for Larry King!"

No, no. That's the combo of Garlik and 8 wives.


42 posted on 10/26/2005 6:04:07 PM PDT by toddlintown (Your papers please.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Did he drink it with a nice grilled leg of lamb and perhaps some roasted potatoes? I hope he didn't drink it with some of the Nile fish.

What did he have for dessert?


43 posted on 10/26/2005 6:08:53 PM PDT by garyhope
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To: NormsRevenge
No doubt a fine California Sonoma merlot, or perhaps a pinot noir from Washington state ... wonderful reds.
44 posted on 10/26/2005 6:09:33 PM PDT by BluH2o
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To: NormsRevenge

I hope they promptly arrested King Tut for underage consumption of alcohol.


45 posted on 10/26/2005 6:19:41 PM PDT by mysterio
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To: nutmeg

bump


46 posted on 10/26/2005 6:59:05 PM PDT by nutmeg ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton 6/28/04)
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To: BluH2o
No doubt a fine California Sonoma merlot,

Howard Dean would be proud.

47 posted on 10/26/2005 7:06:03 PM PDT by quantim (I just reek of the antithesis of liberalism. They smell me and scatter like rats.)
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To: NormsRevenge
Tut was a red wine drinker.

YES!!!!

48 posted on 10/26/2005 7:06:53 PM PDT by GVnana
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To: BluH2o

Maybe a Shiraz from Persia? Muscat from Oman?


49 posted on 10/26/2005 7:10:08 PM PDT by GVnana
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Thanks Val. Bottoms up indeed. Maybe this is how his skull got smashed...

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50 posted on 10/26/2005 10:04:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated my FR profile on Sunday, August 14, 2005.)
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To: Revolting cat!

I have it on good authority that Moses left behind a case of this stuff...
51 posted on 10/26/2005 10:41:07 PM PDT by adam_az (It's the border, stupid!)
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To: Maximus of Texas
He also drank beer and ate pizza on Sunday afternoon while cheering for his Dallas Cowboys!

LOL

52 posted on 10/26/2005 10:41:41 PM PDT by Dustbunny (Main Stream Media -- Making 'Max Headroom' a reality.)
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To: NormsRevenge

re red wine only: Perhaps Tut didn't care for fish


53 posted on 10/27/2005 7:54:40 AM PDT by wildbill
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To: NormsRevenge
Genesis 7:-

18 The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) 19 These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the earth.

20 Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded [a] to plant a vineyard. 21 When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside. 23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father's nakedness.

24 When Noah awoke from his wine...

54 posted on 10/27/2005 7:59:30 AM PDT by pageonetoo (You'll spot their posts soon enough!)
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To: NormsRevenge; Thinkin' Gal
Scientists believe the first wine discovered in Egypt, buried in King Scorpion's tomb in about 3125 B.C., was produced in Jordan and transported 500 miles by donkey and boat to Egypt

Good thing they didn't have to sweat the 8 p.m. closings. Now, I wonder what he smoked.....

55 posted on 10/27/2005 8:31:45 PM PDT by Lijahsbubbe
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