'The oldest beer factory in the world' is excavated in Egypt

Egypt announced on February 14, 2021 that the ruins of the ' world's oldest brewery ', believed to be more than 5,000 years old, were found in Abydos , considered to be the most important sanctuary in ancient Egypt.

Egypt unearths'world's oldest' mass-production brewery

Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Archeology announced on Facebook on February 14 that a joint Egyptian-American archaeological mission led by Matthew Adams of New York University and Deborah Bishak of Princeton University will be held in Abydos, northern Sohag Governorate. I found the ruins of a mass-produced brewery that seems to be the oldest in the world. '

The brewery consists of eight sections, 20 meters long and 2.5 meters wide, with two rows of 40 earthenware for boiling a mixture of grain and water in each section. It was installed.

'This factory may date back to the time of King Narmer, who allegedly ruled Egypt around 3000 BC,' said Mustafa Wajiri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt.

'The investigation revealed that the factory was able to produce about 22,400 liters of beer at the same time, given that it was located inside the facility where the king's funeral was held,' Adams said. , This beer factory was probably making beer for a special ritual for the royal family, perhaps a sacrifice ritual. '

This is not the first time that traces of ancient Egyptians brewing beer have been unearthed, and in 2015 a 5,000-year-old piece of pottery believed to have been used to make beer was found in Tel Aviv , Israel. Found at a construction site.

You can see what the beer that human beings drank 5000 years ago looks like by reading the following article.

A team of students from Stanford University reproduces 'ancient beer 5000 years ago' --GIGAZINE