Bronze age wine cellar found: Wine residue, herbal additives found in palace cellar jars

Wednesday, August 27, 2014 - 16:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A Bronze Age palace excavation reveals an ancient wine cellar. Wine production, distribution, and consumption are thought to have played a role in the lives of those living in the Mediterranean and Near East during the Middle Bronze Age (1900-1600 BC), but little archaeological evidence about Bronze Age wine is available to support art and documentation about the role wine played during this period.

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