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Archaeological site in Abydos
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Archaeologists have discovered a beer brewery that is more than 5000 years old in southern Egypt.
According to the experts, their production method appears to be ultra-modern.
According to the Ministry of Tourism, a team of Egyptian and American scientists found around 40 clay pots arranged in two rows at a burial site in Abydos in the south of the country.
These therefore indicate a mass production of beer.
The head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Mustafa al-Wasiri, estimated that the brewery came from the time of King Narmer, who united the two kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt and founded the 1st Dynasty.
According to him, the brewery consisted of eight large areas with production facilities.
Each sector contained 40 earthenware pots.
He thinks it is the first "high-performance brewery in the world," said al-Wasiri.
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According to New York University archaeologist Matthew Adams, who heads the team together with Deborah Vischak from Princeton, studies suggest that the brewery could produce around 22,400 liters of beer at a time.
It could have been specially produced for "rituals in the burial places of the Egyptian kings".
Egypt hopes with its archaeological discoveries to boost tourism, which recovered slightly in 2019 after years of political conflict and attacks.
The corona pandemic then plunged the industry into a new deep crisis.
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