5,000-year-old "industrial-scale" brewery unearthed in Egypt
Archaeologists working in Egypt have uncovered "what is believed to be the oldest high-production brewery in the world," the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities said Saturday. This undated image shows 5,000 year old vessels used to make beer that were recently discovered in Egypt. This is Egypt's, and perhaps the world's, earliest example of truly industrial-scale beer production. The Abydos brewery illustrates the level of resources available to Egyptian kings from the very beginning of pharaonic history, as well as their ability to organize the specialist labor necessary. It would seem, then, that in the north Abydos brewery, we have an industrial facility that could produce beer on this scale for royal ritual at the site.
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