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King Tut was a red-wine guy, researcher finds
October 27, 2005
LONDON -- King Tutankhamen was a red wine drinker, according to a researcher who analyzed traces of the vintage found in his tomb.
Maria Rosa Guasch-Jane told reporters Wednesday at the British Museum that she made her discovery after inventing a process that gave archeologists a tool to discover the color 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 color of the wine.
Several clues led scientists to believe the wine may have been red: drawings from the time of grapes being pressed into wine were red and purple, for example. But the color of King Tut's wine was impossible to verify until Guasch-Jane invented a process to detect syringic acid, a color compound not found in white wine.
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