Egypt
Daily Mail
With photographs.
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Egypt
Wine press discovered in southern Israel
Daily Mail
With photographs.
Israeli archaeologists have discovered an unusually shaped 1,400-year-old wine press that was exceptionally advanced for its time.
The octagonal press measures 21ft by 54ft and was discovered in southern Israel, around 25 miles south of both Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
At the time the press would have been used, the whole area was part of the Byzantine Empire - the eastern half of the old Roman Empire.
wine press
Vintage: Archaeologists have discovered a 1,400-year-old wine press in southern Israel which was very advanced for its time
Excavation director Uzi Ad, of the Israel Antiquities Authority, said: 'What we have here seems to be an industrial and crafts area of a settlement from the sixth to seventh century, which was situated in the middle of an agricultural region.
'The size of the wine press attests to the fact that the quantity of wine that was produced in it was exceptionally large and was not meant for local consumption.'
The wine was probably intended for export to Egypt, then a major export market, or to Europe, he added.
- Byzantine Wine Press Found In Sinai
Egypt State Information Service Culture Minister Farouk Hosney announced 1/6/2008 the discovery of the remains of rocky wine press from the Byzantine era during the digging works of the antiquity delegation affiliated to the Supreme Council for Antiquities...
- Saturday Trivia
Egypt's wine industry Napa Valley Register There's a teeny reference to the ancient Egyptian wine industry in the middle of the article, but I've mainly added this piece because I found it interesting :-) When a transport company discovered...
- The Toast Of Tutankhamen
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,1639503,00.html The identification of red wine in the tomb of Tutankhamun really gripped the media's imagination, and stories have still been trickling through about it, all repeating the same...
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4379286.stm"King Tutankhamun was a red wine drinker, according to scientists who have been studying residue left in wine pitchers in the ancient pharaoh's tomb. Wine was a luxury drink in ancient Egypt and bottles...
- Wine With Herbs
This is another article on wine from the tomb of King Scorpion being spiked with herbs http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/04/14/egyptian-wine.html...