Wine in the Well

Montelupo Fiorentino

One hundred five feet down, at the bottom of an old well on a hill in Tuscany, Italy, archaeologists have found 15 centuries' worth of objects from Etruscan, Roman, and medieval times: bronze votive cups, statuettes, game pieces, animal bones, coins, and ... perhaps most exciting of all, grape seeds from at least two of those time periods. "The first results seem to indicate that the Etruscans had a more advanced viticulture compared to the Romans," said lead researcher Gaetano di Pasquale: http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/chianit-wine-ancestor-found-140811.htm
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