Discovering the ancient tombs of the women

A new study has found that the ancient Nordic people loved drinking barley wine, honey, kumquat, herbs and even imported wines from Greece and Rome. By the time of death, they still bury the wine and scoop the wine.

This is a tomb of a young woman with blond hair buried in a coffin with a oak trunk in Denmark, dating from 1500-1300 BC.The corpse was buried with a bronze discus skirt and a jar of wine on the bottom.

This type of jar is made of birch bark in Northern Europe.

This is a 30-year-old woman buried in Juellinge, Denmark.This skeleton dates back to about 200 BC.A special feature is that the hand bone still grips a copper pipe with scooped water, the type of device used to drink alcohol.Analyzing residues from what's left, scientists discovered that this is a imported grape wine.

Not only that, scientists also found an old drink set in Havor, Sweden, dating back to the 1st century AD.This outfit includes a wine jar, wine filter and wine glass.Artifacts show that Scandinavian people drink alcohol made from cereals, honey, fruits and herbs.

To better understand the ancient drinker of the ancient people, the Archaeological Project team of Penn's Molecular Biology Museum analyzed the substances and tried to brew the same type of wine as the ancient.