A soup aged for two and a half millennia could not jump out in China, a country that already boasts one of the specialties, delicacies daring for Western palates, such as "century-old egg", and left to ferment for months before being served. The soup in question, however, is a extraordinary archaeological discovery.
has been dug up, tells the Chinese newspaper Global Times during the extension work in Xian Xianyang International Airport, city of Shaanxi province is famous for another archaeological find, the terracotta army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang. The soup, 2,400 years old, was in a bronze pot with three feet, nine inches high and sealed, the support of a tomb: it is a greenish liquid - those who should have been according to archaeologists oxidation of the metal - which they are immersed in some of the bones. In another bronze container was also found almost a liter of a liquid that may be odorless and translucent wine.
The "lunch" period is now in the hands of specialists who will identify the ingredients. In Chinese newspaper an archaeologist of the team that discovered the cauldron, Liu Daiyun, said that "this is the first discovery of a soup bone in the history of archeology Chinese," and that the discovery could help to better understand "the eating habits in the Warring States Period, "because the tomb could belong to a low-ranking military of that era.
decidedly more conservative the vice-principal of the school of Archaeology in Beijing, Zhao Huacheng, which calls for waiting for the results of the tests, because the liquid in the container may have infiltrated from the outside.
The "soup" of Xian is the latest proposal for an archaeological menu "in recent months China has seen the protagonist. Also in Shaanxi province in 2002 was found a "waiver" of fruit, which contain hundreds of seeds of apricots, melons and plums, the results of 3000 years old by carbon dating 14. And in October, the Journal of Archaeological Science published a study of the tombs in the necropolis of Subeixi, Xinjiang, dating back some 2,500 years ago. Along with more features mummies from Eastern European, archaeologists have found, almost intact, even their lunch: noodles and cakes of millet.
on ilGiornale
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