In this blog I’m going to write a summary about
news that appeared the last Friday 22 November in the paper online “The
guardian”, and whose title is “Ancient wine found on jars unearthed from
3,700-year-old cellar in Israel”. This article talks about a new discovery in
the ruins of Canaanite palace in Israel, where the archaeologists revealed the
existence of the 3,700-year-old
wine cellar. Likewise the archaeologists have discovered, through chemical
analysis, wine-making techniques.
On the other hand the
experts have inferred from the ceramics jars that the wine was a luxurious beverage for specials
events like banquets.
Particularly the researchers found this wine
cellar near of the town Nahariya in Northern Israel, where they found 40 jars
(each one with a capacity to store 60 litres). From this discovery, the
archaeologists think that may be more wine stored elsewhere, but the amount found
wouldn’t be enough to supply the local population, because it was reserved for
palace use.
About the content of the jars, the researchers
think that it would have held red and possibly white wine. In this point,
Patrick McGovern said that the discovery give to the archaeologists new
information about the development of winemaking in ancient Canaan, from which
it later spread to Egypt and across the Mediterranean. Now he suggest that is
necessary to determinate the ingredients of this wine.
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