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Share A high-production brewery believed to be the world’s “oldest” has been uncovered by a team of archaeologists at the Abydos funerary site in southern Egypt, the tourism ministry said Saturday. “The joint Egyptian-American archaeological mission, headed by Dr. Matthew Adams of New York University, and Dr. Deborah Vischak of Princeton University, working in North Abydos, Sohag, has uncovered what is believed to be the oldest high-production brewery in the world,” the ministry said in a statement on its Facebook page. It quoted the secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Counci...

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The Office of Communications Feb. 16, 2021 1:06 p.m. Deborah Vischak, assistant professor of art and archaeology at Princeton, and a team of American and Egyptian archaeologists excavating at the site of Abydos in southern Egypt have uncovered evidence of the world’s oldest known industrial-scale beer production facility. Pictured: Large conical ceramic vats were set into the floor of the brewery structure and supported on the exterior by vertically set mud rods, or “fire legs,” necessary because of the weight of the vats’ liquid contents. Photo by Ayman Damarany for the North Abydos ...

The brewery likely dates back to the era of King Narmer.

A high-production brewery believed to be more than 5,000 years old has been uncovered by a team of archaeologists at a funerary site in southern Egypt, the tourism ministry said on February 13.