From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7992575.stm
A team of researchers in the US has discovered traces of a medicinal alcoholic drink in bottles that are more than 5,000 years old.
The scientists extracted wine compounds and plant-derived ingredients from a jar taken from the tomb of one of the first pharaohs of Egypt, Scorpion I.
This is the earliest sample of a human-made medicine.
The researchers report their findings in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Click here to continue | |  |