Herbal wine was used to ail pharoahs

There was this great-grandma that took a sip of the elderberry wine. She had to drink the sip of wine for medical purposes. She was having a tradition that goes back thousands of years. Researchers said that they have found evidence that the Egyptians did added taste to their wine with medicinal herbs. The Egyptians have used it as long as 5000 years. There was a chemical analysis of pottery that was dated to 3150 B.C. This shows that herbs were added to grape wine. The researchers were led by Patrick E. McGovern of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology. There was a report on Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Adding tree resin to wine to prevent disease. This was known in ancient times. This was also being reported in ancient China. It is also continuing into the Middle Ages. That's what the researchers say.The researchers noted that Egyptian records report that a lot of different kinds of herbs were mixed in wine and other things. There were chemicals found from the pottery to prove that they used it for a lot of things. Other chemicals show that there's a possible presence of mint, sage and thyme. That's all I know and I think it's kind of interesting.