Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a massive 1,500-year-old wine industry.
Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a huge wine industry with a 1,000-year history.
The complex, which contains five wine presses, stores, and tens of thousands of pieces and jars, was unearthed in the town of Yavne.
According to Israel’s Antiquities Authority, the find proves that Yavne was once a wine-making powerhouse, producing about two million liters of wine each year.
One of the excavation’s directors, Jon Seligman, claimed the area’s wine was distinguished and distributed across the region.
He tells the media, “So far, other sites where wine was produced are known from the southern coastal plain.”
“But now, we seem to have found the main production center of this prestigious wine.”
He added, “From here, commercial quantities were transported to the ports, and then throughout the Mediterranean basin.”
“This was a prestige wine, a light white wine, and it was taken to many, many countries around the Mediterranean.”
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