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Upcycled Ancient Temple Offers Glimpse at Wine Life in the Roman Empire A rare 1,500-year-old wine press at Antiochia ad Cragum substantiates southern coastal Turkey's status as an important ancient winegrowing region The Roman temple ruins at Antiochia ad Cragum, in modern-day Turkey (B. Kreimer) By Mar 12, 2021 For the Roman Empire, Antiochia ad Cragum was a strategically and...

Pompeii Is Famous for Its Ruins and Bodies, but What About Its Wine? Pompeii is famed for plaster-cast bodies, ruins, frescoes, and the rare snapshot it provides of a rather typical ancient Roman city. But less famous is its evidence of viticulture. Wild grapevines probably existed across peninsular Italy since prehistory, but it is likely the Etruscans and colonizing Greeks promoted wine-making with domesticated grapes as early as 1000 BCE. Pompeii, preserved after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, sits within Campania on fertile volcanic soil with a temperate Mediterranean climate an...