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full title, "A first-of-its-kind discovery of 1,500 year-old grape seeds may answer the question: Why was the wine of the Negev so renowned in the Byzantine Empire-February 2015".

...Why was the wine of the Negev so renowned in the Byzantine Empire...

1 posted on 02/13/2015 12:07:15 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

it was the feet or what was on them


3 posted on 02/13/2015 12:11:02 PM PST by riverrunner
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To: SunkenCiv

I imagine it was a very dry wine. Very dry.


4 posted on 02/13/2015 12:15:02 PM PST by rightwingcrazy
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To: SunkenCiv

Why were Babylonian cooks, Macedonian stave binders, brewers of Jerusalem and Egyptian swineherds considered grave insults?


5 posted on 02/13/2015 12:20:53 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: SunkenCiv

It will be very interesting to see what the DNA turns up about the ancestry of the vines. One would think the origin would not be European because of the aridity of the Negev.


9 posted on 02/13/2015 1:37:22 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: SunkenCiv

To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, “Wine is God’s way of telling us he loves us and wants us to be happy.”

:-))


12 posted on 02/13/2015 2:18:03 PM PST by neocon1984
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