Huge wine cellars filled with hundreds of these vessels have been found all over the Roman world, but until we began our study no one had looked closely at their role in ancient wine production.

focused on ancient dolia — the Roman equivalent of today’s wine barrels. These clay vessels were not mere containers but played a crucial role in the fermentation, aging, and flavoring of the ...

fruit wine and ... Shang-era vessel finally opened, scholars now know that distilled liquors in China date back at least 1,000 year earlier than previously thought. Man Finds Ancient Fossilized ...

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 ...

An array of ancient ... smaller vessels likely functioned as perfume flasks. In contrast, the larger vessels — known as transport stirrup jars (TSJs) — were probably used to carry wine or ...

For example, lead levels rose when Rome began ... that ancient Romans likely experienced health impacts, but Romans were also exposed to lead through the use of lead wine vessels, lead plumbing ...

Mined in Derbyshire and smelted during a period of Roman occupationGalena ... The uses of lead were many ie: water pipes, wine vessels, roofing and other building purposes. This ingot was found ...

Except for the wine production, other kinds of artisanal production in Capitolias were pottery and glass making. “The pot making activity was attested by finds of clay “spacers” in form of rings which ...

A piece of bronzeware unearthed in China in 2010 has finally been opened. The vessel, which dates back to the Shang dynasty, contained a liquid that (upon analysis) was revealed to be distilled liquor ...