Emperor’s 2,100-year-old tea on display
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TEA unearthed from the 2,100-year-old tomb of an emperor will be displayed at a museum in northwest China next week.
Zhang Yun, deputy director of the Hanyang Mausoleum Museum in Xi’an, capital of Shaanxi Province, said that small bits of the tea, recently recognized by the Guinness World Record as the world’s oldest, will be exhibited at the museum starting on May 18. He said the tea was mixed with grains when it was first discovered in 2005 at the Hanyang Mausoleum. The site was the resting place of Emperor Jing (188-141BC), father of Emperor Wu, whose reign ushered in one of the most prosperous periods in Chinese history.
However, it was not until 2015 when archaeologists from the Shaanxi Provincial Archeological Research Institute were able to ascertain the fossilized plant remains were tea. Experts with the Chinese Academy of Sciences used new microfossil analysis methods to examine the samples.
“The analysis showed that the remains were all dried tea sprouts when they were buried,” said Yang Wuzhan, a research fellow at the institute.
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