At the time of the Egyptian ruler Narmer, around 3000 years BC, beer was produced. And not even a little. This is suggested by the discovery of a real brewery in the Abido area, in the governorate of Sohag, in the south of the country, not far from the Nile. Here, in fact, the ministry of tourism announced in recent days, tanks used for the production of beer have been found.
Old, very old beers have been discovered several times – and in some cases even recreated after some time – but the one that was produced in Abido stands out for its production size andfootprint real. As often happens, however, the discovery is far from recent. The Abydos brewery has been known since the beginning of the last century, thanks to the activity of some British archaeologists, who believed those structures of the kilns for drying grain, remembers today Abydos Archeology, the newspaper dedicated to field missions, showing a rich photographic documentation. But its significance has only recently been understood, thanks to the work led by Egyptologists Matthew Adams of New York University e Deborah Fishak of Princeton University, who put together the information from the new excavations and conducted analyzes on the remains found at the site.
And according to the reconstructions presented today by experts, those tanks – 40 for each of the 8 sections discovered – were used for wheat, as the British archaeologists guessed in the past, to heat it together with water and thus produce beer. A drink that, Adams explained, may have been used during the funeral rites of the place, and that the production capacity was quite high, equal to about 22400 liters.
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