Archaeologists in China were very surprised by the alcohol discovered inside a tomb at the Shanjiabao cemetery in China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.

Found in March 2024, the suspected beer was 2,200 years old and was likely brewed during China’s Warring States period (475 to 221 B.C.), according to Fox News, citing findings by researchers published in the June 2026 issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.

The surprising things about the ancient beverage stored in a bronze vessel associated with the Qin state were its amount and preservation. The vessel contained 3.7 liters of spirit, which was rare.

Ancient vessels for alcohol were usually empty or contained minuscule traces of their contents, which had evaporated over time.

Ruru Chen, a researcher at Northwest University’s School of Cultural Heritage in Xi’an, China, added that there was “no noticeable odor and a small amount of sediment at the bottom,” while the liquid “appeared clear and light blue-green,” Fox News reported.

Meanwhile, workers renovating a house in East Flanders, Belgium, found something sealed into the walls of its cellar last week. It was a stash of gold bars and coins reportedly worth P9 million, the BBC reported.

The finders, including an 18-year-old student named Kobe, told Belgian public broadcaster VRT that they reported the gold to the police, which was holding it for safekeeping pending determination of its owner.

Under Belgian law, hidden treasure on someone else’s property was to be divided between the finder and the property’s owner if no one came forward to claim it, according to the BBC.

The country’s civil law gave the gold’s owner five years to claim the stash.

Both the builders and the charity group CAW Oost-Vlaanderen, which owned the property, would have to wait up to 1,823 days before splitting the treasure.