- Patrick McGovern is the Scientific Director of the Biomolecular Archaeology Project 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: “Dr. Pat” in the Lower Egyptian Gallery of the Penn Museum, with the largest sphinx in the Western hemisphere to his side and columns of the 13th c. B.C. Merenptah palace behind him. Photo by Alison Dunlap.
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![Discovery Highlights Innovative and Complex Fermented Beverages of Northernmost Europe in the Bronze and Iron Ages Philadelphia, PA 2014—Winters in Scandinavia were long and cold in the Bronze and Iron […]](https://www.biomolecular-archaeology.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Fig3Havorhoard-115x115.jpg "Biomolecular Archaeological Evidence for Nordic “Grog” and Expansion of Wine Trade Discovered in Ancient Scandinavia!")
Biomolecular Archaeological Evidence for Nordic “Grog” and Expansion of Wine Trade Discovered in Ancient Scandinavia!
Posted on September 10, 2014 | No CommentsDiscovery Highlights Innovative and Complex Fermented Beverages of Northernmost Europe in the Bronze and Iron Ages Philadelphia, PA 2014—Winters in Scandinavia were long and cold in the Bronze and Iron […] -
![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 […]](https://www.biomolecular-archaeology.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/smithsonian_article1-115x115.jpg "Dig, Drink, and Be Merry")
Dig, Drink, and Be Merry
Posted on June 29, 2011 | 1 CommentIn 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 […] -
![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, […]](https://www.biomolecular-archaeology.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/jiahu_home-115x115.jpg "Chateau Jiahu")
Chateau Jiahu
Posted on March 16, 2010 | No CommentsChateau 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, […] -
![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 […]](https://www.biomolecular-archaeology.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/midas_home-115x115.jpg "Midas Touch Wins Brew Fest")
Midas Touch Wins Brew Fest
Posted on March 15, 2010 | No CommentsMidas 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 […]