Oldest Industrial Wine Press Unearthed in Northern Iraq

Archaeologists have excavated the first, and probably the oldest, industrial wine press in northern Mesopotamia dating back more than 2,700 years. "This is a quite unique archaeological finding, because it is the first time in northern Mesopotamia that archaeologists are able to identify a wine production area," Daniele Morandi Bonacossi, Professor of Near Eastern archaeology at the University of Udine told Reuters.