Israeli archaeologists have discovered the Wine Plant of the Byzantine era, which was at that time the largest complex of this kind. The opening is reported in the article published in the France24 magazine.
The Giant Plant, located south of Tel Aviv, accompanied five wine presses, which occupied the area of more than one square kilometer. On the territory of which it is estimated at 1.5 thousand years old, the warehouses for excerpts and sales of wine were also found, furnaces for making clay amphors to store wine, and tens of thousands of fragments and intact clay jugs.
products that were produced here were known as “wine from Gaza and Ashkelon” due to nearby port cities, from where it exported. According to archaeologists, the wine was considered a valuable product. In antiquity, the fermentation of grape juice was an effective way to avoid diseases due to contaminated drinking water.
In addition, during the two-year archaeological excavations, more ancient wine presses belonging to the Persian era were found and created about 2.3 thousand years ago.