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The world’s oldest brewery, believed to have been excavated in Egypt.
The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Relics announced on the 13th (local time) that Egyptian and American archaeologists have unearthed a brewery believed to have been built during the Narmer Pharaoh era about 5,000 years ago in Abidos on the west bank of the Nile, 450 km south of Cairo.
The Pharaoh Narmer was the first pharaoh who unified ancient Egypt and Egypt, and founded the First Dynasty from 3150 BC to 2613 BC.
The secretary-general of Egypt’s Supreme Antiquities Commission Mustafa Wajiri said that the excavated brewery “is thought to be the oldest high-producing brewery in the world.”
The brewery was known to exist in the early 1900s, but its location was not specified.
Then the Egyptian-American archaeological team relocated and successfully excavated.
The brewery consists of 8 spaces with a length of 20m, a width of 2.5m, and a depth of 0.4m.
In each space, there were two rows of about 40 pottery heating the mixture of grain and water, which is the raw material of beer.
New York University professor Matthew Adams, who led the excavation, estimated that the brewery produced 22,000 liters of beer at a time.
It was believed that the beer produced here would have been used for ceremonies in a business facility for pharaohs.
In fact, Abidos is the place where the tombs of early Egyptian dynasties such as the First Dynasty were built.
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It has been confirmed in the past that the ancient Egyptians made beer.
In 2015, in Tel Aviv, Israel, a piece of pottery used to make beer in Egypt about 5,000 years ago was found at a construction site.
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