Before the King of Beers existed, there was Pharaoh of Beers.
A team of archaeologists in southern Egypt discovered what is believed to be the oldest large-scale brewery in the world, more than 5,000 years old.
“The joint Egyptian-American archaeological mission, led by Dr. Matthew Adams of New York University and Dr. Deborah Vischak of Princeton University, working in North Abydos, Sohag, discovered what is believed to be the oldest high-end brewery production in the world, ”wrote the Egyptian tourism ministry in a Facebook post on Saturday.
The foam shop “probably dates back to the era of King Narmer”, which ruled around 3,100 BC and is widely credited for uniting Upper and Lower Egypt, the post quotes Mostafa Waziry, secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities , as saying.
The large brewery consists of eight sectors, each with about 40 ceramic pots divided into two rows – and it is believed to produce more than 22,000 liters of beer at a time, according to the statement.
The facility “may have been built in this place specifically to supply the royal rituals that took place inside the funeral facilities of the kings of Egypt,” said Adams in the statement, which went on to note that beer may have been used in “sacrificial rites. “
British archaeologists learned of the brewery’s existence in the early 1900s, but were never able to determine its exact location, according to the statement.
In 2019, Israeli researchers used 5,000-year-old yeast recovered from fragments of Egyptian, Philistine and Jewish pottery to prepare a batch of beer.
And in 2014, archaeologists in the Egyptian city of Luxor unearthed the relatively modern tomb of former 3,200-year-old former brewmaster Khonso Em Heb.
With Post Wires