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Archaeological team co-led by Princeton's Vischak identifies world's oldest industrial-scale brewery at Abydos, Egypt, ca. 3000 BCE


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Feb. 16, 2021 1:06 p.m.
Deborah Vischak, assistant professor of art and archaeology at Princeton, and a team of American and Egyptian archaeologists excavating at the site of Abydos in southern Egypt have uncovered evidence of the world’s oldest known industrial-scale beer production facility. Pictured: Large conical ceramic vats were set into the floor of the brewery structure and supported on the exterior by vertically set mud rods, or “fire legs,” necessary because of the weight of the vats’ liquid contents.
Photo by Ayman Damarany for the North Abydos Project
A team of American and Egyptian archaeologists excavating at the site of Abydos in southern Egypt has uncovered evidence of the world’s oldest known industrial-scale beer production facility. The ancient complex, more than 5,000 years old, had the capacity to produce enough beer to serve thousands of people in a single batch. ....

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