2,000-year-old liquor found in China
The liquor dates to China's Qin dynasty. (Source: CCTV/CNN)XI’AN CITY, CHINA (CCTV/CNN) - Both wine and liquor get better with age, but archaeologists in China discovered a drink that would severely test that principle.
Researchers believe they have found a 2,000-year-old liquor in China’s northwest province of Shaanxi. They discovered a bronze kettle, improbably still containing a small amount of pale, brackish alcohol.
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“The kettle had its opening sealed with plants and natural fibers,” said Zhang Yanglizheng, of the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology. “Surprisingly, we found about 300 milliliters of liquor in it. The liquor was milky white when we found it and it was a little muddy.”
The archaeologists said it was likely similar to the kind of yellow rice wine widely consumed in China. The kettle was a sacrificial vessel dating back to between 221 and 207 B.C., they believe.
It was found at a graveyard of commoners’ tombs, buried during the Qin dynasty.
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