Buried in a tomb in near Xianyang, the ancient capital of the Qin Dynasty, archaeologists have found a 2,000-year-old bronze jug that still has rice wine in it.
It is one of numerous artifacts found in the tomb at an excavation site of commoners’ graves in China’s northwestern Shaanxi province. The artifact dates back to the late Warring States time period (475-221 B.C.) and the Qin Dynasty (221-206 B.C.), reports Chi Dehua for the Chinese paper GB Times.
During that time period, bronze jugs or containers with wine were regularly buried with the dead as a kind of sacrifice. But the Archaeological Research Institute of Shaanxi team, which is leading the dig, was surprised to find that the 10 fluid ounces of the milky white, muddy liquid was so well-preserved. READ MORE…