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Breweries On The Banks Of The Nile: The Egyptians “Timeless”?

The shocking work shows that at a time when much of human society was still in its infancy in Stone Age villages, the Egyptians organized their lives in impossibly modern ways.

According to Ancient Origins, although evidence of ancient beer has been found in many civilizations dating back 5,000-13,000 years, it is one of the earliest evidences of industrial “standard” beer production ever. be found.

Large ceramic tanks with many different uses in the brewing process are arranged into giant lines, operating rhythmically with a “huge” capacity not inferior to modern breweries – Photo: Antiquities Council Supreme Egypt.

According to Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, the evidence suggests that this ancient brewery was in operation during the time of the pharaoh Narmer, who unified Egypt at the beginning of the First Dynasty (years). 3150 to 2613 BC).



The brewery consists of 8 huge production lines, ranging from 20-35 meters long, 2.5 meters wide, containing up to 80 ceramic tanks used for the stages of grinding raw materials, boiling grain and water mixtures. …

If all the structures operate in unison, the brewery will produce up to 50,000 liters of finished beer per brew. These beers were supplied to many major cities of the empire.

Brewery ruins in Egypt – Photo: Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities

“This represents a real scale of industrial production, even by modern standards,” the researchers quoted Abydos Archeology as saying.

Egyptian civilization has long had a magical effect on archeology because it seems that the Egyptians built a world of their own with a level of technology and social organization that is timeless compared to the rest of the world. gender. Archaeologists suspect that the Egyptians “industrialized” manufacturing in many other areas, with many surprising monuments hidden in the desert.