World's largest Mass Production Brewery unearthed in Egypt

Mass Production Brewery unearthed in Egypt

On Saturday, the tourism ministry revealed the unveiling of a high Production Brewery which is predicted to be around 5000 years old. It has been discovered by a team of archaeologists at a funerary site in Southern Egypt. The site has embedding several units comprising around 40 earthenware pots arranged in two rows has been scrounged in North Abydos Sohag, by an American-Egyptian team as declared by ministry on the facebook page.

Believed as "the oldest mass production Brewery in the world", it is being speculated to date back in the era of King Narmer, said the secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, Mostafa Waziry. Narmer ruled the country around 5000 years ago. He holds the crown to found the first Dynasty and unify upper and lower Egypt. The statement stated that earlier, British archaeologists uncovered a Brewery in the beginning of the 20th century but its location wasn't determined precisely. "The joint American-Egyptian team relocated as well as uncovered its contents," it said. Waziry also revealed that the brewery consists of eight large areas that were used for beer production.

A mixture of grains and water was heated primarily in vats, with each basin held stuck in place by levers made of clay, placed vertically as rings. Archaeologist Matthew Adams of New York University, who heads the joint mission with Deborah Vischak of Princeton University asserted that large scale production of beer was carried out with around 22,400 litres at a time. The statement also quoted him saying, "The location of the brewery was destined, keeping in mind its usefulness to supply the royal rituals taking place inside funeral facilities of the kings of Egypt." Some evidences found during excavation also dictate the tales of beer usage in sacrificial ceremonies. The past discoveries have also portrayed beer making history of ancient Egypt.

Pottery ruins of containers used for beer making by Egyptians, belonging to 5000 years ago were also found in the site of Tel Aviv, the Israeli Antiquities Authority announced in 2015. Abydos, the location bearing the current discovery, had also been in limelight for past excavations of treasures and temples especially that of Seti I. In 2000, Abydos was brought out as an ancient Egyptian solar barge, dating back to the first Pharaonic dynasty around 5,000 years ago by US archaeologists. Egypt in the recent past has announced major discoveries that can surge tourism, which had undergone blowing transitions from the 2011 uprising to the coronavirus pandemic. Authorities expected a tourism crowd of around 15 million visitors in 2020, compared to 13 million of previous year but the pandemic had halted every venture.