19th Century 'Elixir of Long Life' Found

The elixir of long life is a bitter, alcohol-heavy concoction — if you trust a 150-year-old bottle unearthed at a hotel construction site in New York’s Lower East Side.

The site, once a German beer garden and music hall called the Atlantic Garden, contained hundreds of liquor bottles dating from as far back as the 1850s.

Among them was a greenish glass vial that was believed to help people cheat death.