The Largest Ever Byzantine Era Winery is Discovered in Israel

Archeologists in Israel have discovered the world's largest known Byzantine-era winery. Five presses, four large warehouses for aging wine, kilns to fire wine jugs, and tens of thousands of broken jug pieces were unearthed at Yavne, south of Tel Aviv. It is estimated the 1,500 year old complex produced around two million litres of wine a year. "The proportions here are incredible," Elie Haddad, an Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologist who co-directed the two-year dig was quoted as saying by NPR.