- 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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5,100 Year Old Egyptian Medicinal Wine
Posted on November 16, 2010 | No Comments5,100 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 […]