http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-china-rice-wine-discovered-sprawling-2000-year-old-tomb-1203849 > Traditional Chinese vessels like these were most often used to store wine. Almost a gallon of pungent clear yellow fluid was discovered in an ancient bronze pot. Getty Images Share Tech & ScienceArchaeologists have dug up a 2,000-year old bronze pot that might just be hiding some ancient wine, Chinese state news agency Xinhua has reported. > The team discovered almost a gallon of clear yellow fluid in the pot from a large Western Han Dynasty (202 B.C.E. - 8 B.C.E) tomb in the country’s Henan Province.