Take the wine challenge! try our interactive quiz From Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat 38.		C o n t e n t s : Intro - living out our past through wine Neolithic Period - "chateau hajji firuz" Egypt - wine for the afterlife Mesopotamia - under the grape arbors... One of a kind laboratory - ancient evidence; modern technology Map - wine's whereabouts: then and now The grapevine & tree resins - nature's ingredients ............................................................. Credits Glossary Links

Wine Links - “domesticated”

Time Magazine - read the November 2003 article focusing on Patrick McGovern's ongoing wine research Abydos - more about this site in southern Egypt where wine was found Expedition Magazine - the Museum's magazine that explores our human past and present, featuring “The Beginnings of Winemaking and Viniculture in the Ancient Near East and Egypt,” volume 39, no. 1. The Funerary Feast of King Midas Patrick McGovern's Homepage - more about this scientist and his research wine jars were found at the site of Saqqara

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