ISRAEL-EGYPT/BEER Party like it's 3000 BC: Egyptian beer vessels unearthed in Tel Aviv

Record ID: 399381

  • Title: ISRAEL-EGYPT/BEER Party like it's 3000 BC: Egyptian beer vessels unearthed in Tel Aviv
  • Date: 29th March 2015
  • Summary: TEL AVIV, ISRAEL (MARCH 29, 2015) (REUTERS) CONSTRUCTION SITE WHERE FRAGMENTS OF ANCIENT BEER-BREWING BASINS WERE FOUND VARIOUS OF WORKERS AT CONSTRUCTION SITE VARIOUS OF WORKER DIGGING IN GROUND (SOUNDBITE) (English) MICROBREWERY OWNER, DAVID COHEN, SAYING: "I have a microbrewery two blocks from here called the 'Dancing Camel' and we brew beers for the most part where try
  • Embargoed: 13th April 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Israel
  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA4ILYSN4RG1MKNVMEWX8159ARG
  • Story Text: Fragments of ancient beer-brewing basins unearthed in Tel Aviv indicate that Egyptians more than 5,000 years ago had settled farther north than previously known and were imbibing in what is now Israel's most hard-partying city.
    Israel's Antiquities Authority said on Sunday (March 29), that the ceramic vessels, crafted in an Egyptian method that differed from local pottery-making at the time, would have held a thick, partially baked barley and water mixture left to ferment in the sun.
    Microbrewery owner, David Cohen, said that he is excited to know about the founding of the ancient fragments.
    "I have a microbrewery two blocks from here called the 'Dancing Camel' and we brew beers for the most part where try to use local ingredients as much as possible. And any clues that I can possibly get from the archaeologists here, I'd be happy to understand what kind of beer they were making here," David Cohen said.
    The shards were found under an office construction site in downtown Tel Aviv in 17 pits used to store agricultural produce in the Early Bronze Age (3500-3000 BC), the Antiquities Authority said in a statement.
    "We found about hundreds of pottery shells in this site but what is special in this site that we for the first time in Tel Aviv in the Early Bronze Age we found some pits which belongs to the Egyptian people who settler (settled) here in about 5000 years ago," said Diego Barkan from Israel's Antiquities Authority.
    The discovery suggested that Egyptians settled further north during that era than once believed.
    Archaeologists in Israel have found evidence of Egyptian communities to the south, in the Negev and along its Mediterranean coast.
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