These include the tragiccasts of ancient Romansburied under the ash of Pompeii and preservedsnacksdiscovered beneath the Roman Colosseum.
Other times, it’s uncovering a scrap of tartan fabric in a Scottish peat bog.
These fragile materials can tell us so much about food, clothing, and culture in other time periods.
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Archeologists are excited to learn what they can from the bottles and their contents.
Made in Europe of dark green glass, the two imported bottles were nestled into the dirt.
The bottles shockingly still contained liquid contents.
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Inside float cherry stems, and pits and the archeologists said the contents still smelled like cherries.
One of the most common, especially for berries, is to dry them as much as possible .
put them in a dry bottle, cork it .
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and then bury them.
At his death, Mount Vernon counted317 enslaved peopleamong its inhabitants.
Washington himself owned 123, and the rest were part of his wife’s first husband’s estate.
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Erin Blakemore forHistory.comwrites, He whipped, beat, and separated people from their families as punishment.
Bottled cherries discovered in 18th-century bottles and buried under Mount Vernon’s floors were recently discovered.
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