Although the liquid has a reddish hue, chemical analysis established that “the wine contained in the urn was white,” according to new analysis published this week.

Scientists discovered a 2000-year-old white wine inside an urn that also contained a man's ashes in a Roman tomb in Spain

A team of scientists have discovered the world’s oldest bottle of wine preserved in an ancient Roman burial site in southern Spain, according to a study published this week.

There is evidence that wine was placed together with water and foods in Roman burials to accompany the deceased in their transition to the afterlife.

A 2,000-year-old Roman funerary urn unearthed in southern Spain has been shown to contain the oldest wine ever found still in liquid form.

Inside one of them, the cremated bones of a man named Senicio were immersed in a red-tinged liquid that researchers believed was wine. Interring bones inside an urn with wine was a popular burial ritual among the Roman elite,