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Vietnamese The archaeologists recently discovered a wine cellar dating back some 3,700 years beneath a palace in northern Israel.
Traces of 4,000-year-old wine cellar in Israel. Photo: George Washington University
Fox News reported, ancient cellars were discovered under the ruins of the palace of Canaan, near the town of Nahariya, northern Israel.
According to calculations of scientists, wine cellar dating back about 3,700 years old. At the excavation site, they found 40 vases used for holding wine, each bottle has a capacity of about 50 liters. The pots containing alcohol are the same mark, so a person could have produced pottery makers.
Andrew Koh Brandeis University, said the results of chemical analysis of specimens found in this area proves this is not the usual kind of alcohol that people drink or drink every day, which is devoted wines for the party.
Andrew and members of the research team discovered signs of the components used for making wine as mint, honey, resin, cinnamon bark and cedar aromas. Chemical analysis also showed that the pots containing red wine or white wine.
The researchers said that this finding may help them get qualified bartender quite complex and “sophisticated” people of the area at that time. They say there may be many other wine storage area, but the number of cellars found to date estimates are not sufficient to meet the local people living here. This led the team to believe that the cellar was built to store wine for the palace.
Patrick McGovern of the University of Pennsylvania, an expert on wine produced in ancient times, said the discovery of 4,000-year-old wine cellar provides some important information about the development of the wine industry in the Canaan , then spread to Egypt and across the Mediterranean.
Thuy Linh
