Heritage is at the heart of a wine making project in Pompeii that is aiming to re-establish the southern Italian volcanic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pile of Ancient Roman amphoras sitting in a cave. - Michael Warwick/Shutterstock In 2019, a family in the small town of Carmona, ...

A new chemical and microscopic analysis of Pompeii residues documents a sacrificial rite that had only been previously ...

Paintings from ancient Egypt show the harvesting of grapes and the making of wine. Mesopotamian murals illustrate elites rai ...

From a modern, scientific perspective, the wine Romans drank is often seen as an inconsistent, poorly made, and thoroughly unpleasant beverage. It is alleged that Roman winemakers had to mask their ...

For the Love of Wine: My Odyssey Through the World s Most Ancient Wine Culture (Potomac Books), by Alice Feiring. As children we learn to read starting with ABCs, yet most wine lovers inadvertently ...

An experiment to recreate one of humanity’s oldest drinks began with foraged grapes, hand-crushed fruit, and traditional ...

The dolia defossa wine cellar of Villa Regina (Boscoreale). Emlyn Dodd. Credit: Ministero della Cultura – Parco Archaeologico di Pompei From a modern, scientific perspective, the wine Romans drank is ...

Inside the Boston Wine School, Jonathon Alsop places empty glasses and plates of figs and cheese before a small group of students. Alsop, who founded the school in 2000, is doing a test run of a new ...

A depas goblet excavated from the ruins of Troy by Heinrich Schliemann in the 1870s University of Tübingen In the first book of the Iliad, the god Hephaestus passes a “double goblet” around at a ...

The kylix drinking cup in ancient Greek symposiums revealed who was an aristocrat and who didn’t belong to the elite circle.