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Chinese archaeologists have discovered what appears to be a sealed bronze pot of soup that may be 2,400 years old.

The soup was found along with a sealed bronze pot that contains a colorless liquid that may be wine, and Chinese anthropologists and historians say that may mean the tomb which contains them belonged to someone of a moderately high status during that country's "Warring States" period, lasting from about 475-221 BC.

The alternative explanation, that the soup and wine may indicate the apartment of an ancient graduate student, does not yet have widespread support among scientists. Project directors are still seeking chemists to test the soup, but have created a waiting list for those who have volunteered to test the wine. French vintners have already dismissed the wine's quality, saying that everyone knows that the Chinese grape crops of the fifth through third centuries BC were simply not up to standard.