Well, he did not find it, but after years and years, you can taste the history and water at The Fountain of Youth Archaeological ParkĮach cultures has its own recipe for immortality. The legend became particularly prominent due to the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León who searched for it in Florida in 1513. They appear as early as the writings of Herodotus (5th century BC), in the Alexander romance (3rd century AD.) For example, tales about the Fountain of Youth – a mythical spring, allegedly restores the youth of anyone who drinks or bathes in its waters – are around for thousands of years. In ancient times, in every corner of the word, efforts were made to find magic potions. This miraculous external “aid” that once taken will change our body is a dream that we share with our ancestors from all over the world. One way to answer the question “how to achieve immortality” was to take something that will make you young and able to live forever. So, keep with us as we travel alongside the deepest human dream, to see all (the failed) trials.įrom the fountain of youth to medicine and genetics: the dream of a magic pill! Humanity has changed in many ways, but the hope of the dream of Immortality remained and generation after generation, trying to find it in different ways or forms. And, of course, there were always the “party-spoilers”, the ones asking: why to be Immortal? The first is to take some kind of “magic pill” – be it the fountain of youth, the elixir of life, the holy grail, till modern medicine of genetic engineering.Īfter the magic “pills” proved to be a failure, the second attempt was through more creative endeavours, such as building a monastery, a temple, making a sculpture or painting, till nowadays when we talk about digital immortality and I guess soon about virtual immortality.
And during all these years and years, the solutions for achieving immortality can fall in several categories. But how will they test it? Do they have to wait until a person reaches 200 years of age to confirm that it works? And if most people decide that they want to live forever, how will we fit everyone on our planet? I suppose we could always move to Mars since that plan is already in the making.Dreaming about Immortality has a long history, almost as long as the failed quests to achieve it. If there is indeed an immortality elixir, I have no doubt in my mind that countless people will want to get their hands on it. “The tomb provides valuable material for study of the life of Western Han nobles as well as the funeral rituals and customs of the period,” explained Pan Fusheng, who is the leading archaeologist of the excavation project.Ĭlick here to see pictures of the artifacts discovered during the excavation. In addition to the elixir, a large amount of jade ware, bronze artifacts, and color-painted clay pots were also discovered inside of the 210-square-meter tomb. Potion bottle (not the one described in this article) Shi Jiazhen, who is the head of the Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology in Luoyang, described this incredible discovery, “It is the first time that mythical “immortality medicines” have been found in China,” adding, “The liquid is of significant value for the study of ancient Chinese thoughts on achieving immortality and the evolution of Chinese civilization.” But after conducting studies on the liquid, it was determined that it contained alunite and potassium nitrate which are the prime ingredients used in an immortality medicine which had been described in an ancient Taoist text. At first, archaeologists believed that the liquid was in fact a type of liquor as it smelled like alcohol. In October of 2018, the 3.5 litres of liquid was excavated from inside of the tomb of a noble family who lived in the city of Luoyang. A little over a year ago, Chinese archaeologists announced that the first emperor of a unified China named Qin Shi Huang (who lived from 259 BC to 210 BC) was said to have been obsessed with finding the elixir of life and he even arranged a nationwide search for it. The search for an immortality potion has been going on for a very long time – apparently for thousands of years. A mysterious liquid that was found in a 2,000-year-old bronze pot is said to be an “ elixir of life”. Archaeologists from central China’s Henan Province made the discovery in a tomb that belonged to a family from the Western Han Dynasty which dates back to the time period from 202 BC to 8 AD and the elixir was even recorded in ancient Taoist literature.
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