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Climate change gives Swedish winemakers an unexpected boost

Record high temperatures this year forced European wine producers to harvest grapes much earlier than usual. French wineries fear it will lead to the worst season in 30 years. But Nordic newcomers to the world of wine are toasting what they believe will be a vintage harvest, thanks, in no small part, to climate change. Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports from Sweden.

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A Roman Bathhouse Was Secretly Turned Into a Wine and Olive Oil Factory in Late Antiquity at Antiochia ad Cragum

A modest Roman bathhouse on Turkey’s southern coast spent its retirement very differently from how it began. Constructed in the late 2nd or early 3rd century CE, it stopped functioning as a bath sometime after an invasion in the 260s CE and was never used for bathing again. Centuries later, someone gutted much of its […]

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DNA From Ancient Grape Seeds Shows Spain’s Wine Came From the Phoenicians, Not the Romans

One grape variety still grown in Spanish vineyards, hebén, has never gone out of cultivation for at least the last 1,100 years, according to the new study. That takes its lineage back to roughly the year 929, around when the Caliphate of Córdoba was proclaimed in southern Spain. Eleven centuries of unbroken agriculture, and the […]

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Adobe Houses and a Wine Press from the Era of Ramesses II Found in Memphis Reveal How Ancient Egyptians Lived Away from the Pharaohs

The joint archaeological mission between the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt and the Shanghai Museum, which has been working for several seasons in the area of the Temple of Sekhmet in Mit Rahina, has unveiled a series of discoveries that provide new insights into human occupation and productive activities in one of the oldest […]

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