(Image: EGYPTIAN DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES/HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)“The brewery may have been built in this place specifically to supply the royal rituals that were taking place inside the funeral facilities of the kings of Egypt. “Evidence for the use of beer in sacrificial rites was found during excavations in these facilities,” Mathew Adams said. Past discoveries have shown evidence of beer-making in ancient Egypt dating back 5,000 years. The process we would recognise as beer brewing began in Mesopotamia at the Godin Tepe settlement now in modern-day Iran between 3500 - 3100 BCE. (Image: EGYPTIAN DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES/HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)An Egyptian archaeological mission also recently discovered a part of a wine storage unit in Alexandria.

Source: Daily Mirror February 15, 2021 14:26 UTC