Inside the bottle, which was stoppered with rusted wire wrapped around an old cork, was a note handwritten in cursive. How old, exactly, became clear when they drilled away the cork and pulled the ...
They then stuffed the rolled-up directive in an old glass bottle with a cork and hit it in the wall cavity of the nautical navigation station, where it remained undiscovered until the latest ...
The use of cork (crafted from the bark of a specific type of oak tree, Quercus suber) placed inside the neck of the wine bottle is a 350-year-old technology. This alone should be a reason to question ...