For Mary Poppins, a spoonful of sugar helped the medicine go down. For ancient Egyptians, wine did the job.
An ancient wine jar found in Gebel Adda in southern Egypt dates from between A.D. 300 and 500. New chemical analyses of residue found inside the jar show that the wine may have been laced with rosemary and pine resin for medicinal purposes.
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