Oscar Wilde set out on a transformative journey through Greece, a voyage that would leave an indelible mark on his identity.

You might think that only the rich and elite of ancient Troy sipped wine from goblets, but it turns out that regular everyday ...

Wine drinking in ancient Troy was not restricted to the upper classes, as has long been supposed – something our new research ...

Back in 1871, German archeologist Heinrich Schliemann discovered the legendary fortress city of Troy in western Turkey, near the Aegean coast. During excavations, Schliemann found several ...

Chemical analyses revealed wine residue on both expensive goblets and common cups unearthed among the legendary city's ruins ...

He poured the drink, going from right to left, for all the other gods, drawing off sweet nectar from the mixing bowl.” It doesn’t take long for the deities to soon begin laughing “irrepressibly” while ...

Based on organic residues – imperceptible to the naked eye and detectable only at a molecular level – bronze age wine consumption must be fundamentally reconsidered.

For the first time ever, a team of researchers has found chemical evidence that wine was actually drunk in Troy, verifying a conjecture of Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered the legendary ...

Credit: Schuppi / CC BY-SA 4.0 For the first time, researchers have found solid chemical proof that people in ancient Troy drank wine, confirming a theory first suggested by Heinrich Schliemann, the ...