Ancient Beer Factory Discovered!

Possibly the oldest known beer factory has been discovered at an archaeological site in Egypt by American and Egyptian archaeologists. The factory, found in an ancient burial ground, dates back to the reign of King Narmer, who ruled during the First Dynastic Period (3150 B.C - 2613 B.C.) of ancient Egypt. Eight units, each about 65-feet long and 8-feet wide were found, as NBC News detailed: 

Archaeologists found eight huge units — each is about 65-feet long and 8-feet wide. Each unit includes some 40 pottery basins in two rows, which had been used to heat up a mixture of grains and water to produce beer, Waziri said.

The joint mission is co-chaired by Dr. Matthew Adams of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and Deborah Vischak, assistant professor of ancient Egyptian art history and archaeology at Princeton University.

Adams said the factory was apparently built in this area to provide royal rituals with beer, given that archaeologists found evidences showing the use of beer in sacrificial rites of ancient Egyptians.

British archaeologists were the first to mention the existence of the factory in the early 1900s, but they couldn’t determine its location, the antiquities ministry said.

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