Historians Uncover 18th-Century Liquid at Mt. Vernon

Archaeologists recently discovered two glass bottles filled with a mysterious liquid at George Washington's Mount Vernon estate in Virginia. The archaeologist who found the bottles, Nick Beard, told FOX 5 DC that he was digging in the mansion's cellar as part of a revitalization project. Beard found the top of a bottle, and then the whole bottle, before noticing a second bottle. Astoundingly, the bottles contained a liquid that had miraculously survived the past three centuries. "Just the fact that there was liquid at all. That, right there, sets off alarm bells," Beard said. "If there’s water, or liquid, pooling in there like that, that means it’s very intact, it’s in very good shape."