News Fromking Tut's Tomb:
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News from King Tut?s tomb:The pharaoh drank red
wine
King Tutankhamen was a red wine
drinker,according to a researcher wh analysed traces of the
vintage founding his tomb. Maria Rosa Guasch-Jane told
epoters on Wednesday at the British Museum that she made
her discovery after inventing a process after inventing a
process that gave archaeologists a tool to discover the
colour 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 colour of
the wine. Severalclues led scientists to believe the wine
may have been red:drawing from the time of grapes being
pressed in ot wine were red and purple,for example. But
the colour of King Tut?s wine ws impossible to verify until
Guasch Jane invented a process to detect a colour compound
not found in white wine called syringic acid. To test her
method,GuaschJane scraped residue form wine Jrs owned bythe
British Museum and the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Two of
the Jars came formKing Tut?s tomb,discovered by English
archaeologist Howard carter in 1922,Patrick Mcgovern,an
American molecular archaeologist,said he has discovered
grape residueinnorthern iran than dates winemaking to 5400
BC. Scientists believe the first wine dioscovred in
Egypt,buried in King Scorpion?s tomb in about 3125 Bc,was
produced in Jordan and transported 500miles by donkey and
boat to Egypt, he said. Eventually,grapervines were
planted inEgypt. 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 occasins. Guash-Jane said. Wine was
offered to gods in ceremonies,and kings were buried
withjars of wine and food similar to what they consumed
when they were alive,she said. Guasch-Jane first areported
her findings in the academic journal AnalyticalChemistry
last year
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