Patrick McGovern is the Scientific Director of the Biomolecular Archaeology Laboratory for Cuisine, Fermented Beverages, and Health at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia, where he is also an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology. In the popular imagination, he is known as the "Indiana Jones of Ancient Ales, Wines, and Extreme Beverages." Read more
Caption: Patrick McGovern in his laboratory, examining and "sniffing" out a 3000-year-old millet wine, which was preserved inside a tightly lidded bronze vessel from an elite tomb at Anyang. Photo by Penn Museum.
Dig, Drink, and Be Merry
In the lab, a flask of coffee-colored liquid bubbles on a hot plate. It contains tiny fragments from an ancient Etruscan amphora found at the French dig McGovern had just…
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Dig, Drink, and Be Merry
In the lab, a flask of coffee-colored liquid bubbles on a hot plate. It contains tiny fragments from an ancient Etruscan amphora found at the French dig McGovern had just…
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Anticancer Activity Found in Herbal Additives of Ancient Alcoholic Beverages
Penn Museum and Penn Medicine Research Collaboration Yields First Promising Evidence for Efficacy of Medicinal Compounds Once Employed by Our Ancestors New biomolecular archaeological evidence backed up by increasingly sophisticated…
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Uncorking the Past
In a lively tour around the world and through the millennia, this book tells the compelling story of humanity’s ingenious, intoxicating quest for the perfect drink.
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Chateau Jiahu
Chateau Jiahu won the Gold Medal at the Great American Brew Fest in Colorado in 2009! Preserved pottery jars found in the Neolithic villiage of Jiahu, in Henan province,Northern China,…
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Midas Touch Wins Brew Fest
Midas Touch won Bronze in Best Specialty Honey Beer category at the Great American Brew Fest in Colorado. Read more This recipe is based on an ancient Turkish recipe using…
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5,100 Year Old Egyptian Medicinal Wine
5,100 year old chemical evidence for ancient medicinal remedies is discovered in ancient Egyptian wine jars. New archaeochemical evidence, backed up by increasingly sophisticated scientific testing techniques, are pointing to…