This 4,000-Year-Old Jar Contains Italy’s Oldest Olive Oil Traces of oleic and linoleic acid found on a central Italy jar pushes the timeline of the substance in the region back an estimated 700 ...

4,000-year-old jar contains Italy's oldest olive oil By Laura Geggel , Senior Writer LiveScience Published June 1, 2018 12:19pm EDT | Updated June 1, 2018 12:24pm EDT ...

Besides this new finding, the only known ancient storage jars with chemical signatures of olive oil in Italy were from the cities of Cosenza and Lecce, in southern Italy, that are thought to date ...