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Archaeologists discover remnants of 8,000-year-old alcohol in China

Archaeologists discover remnants of 8,000-year-old alcohol in China

Archaeologists said on Friday that they had found the earliest evidence of Chinese people using monascus to make alcohol in 8,000-year-old clay pots unearthed in central China. A large amount of monascus hypha and cleistothecia, together with fermented starch grains from rice, were detected in remnants of two clay pots