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  • 1,900-year-old winery — that made drinks for ancient Romans — found in France

    12/21/2023 8:39:18 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 18 replies
    Inrap via Miami Herald via Yahoo ^ | November 30, 2023 | Aspen Pflughoeft
    On the bank of a picturesque river in southern France sat a collection of ancient ruins. A buried cellar and empty pools are all that remain of a Roman-era winery.Archaeologists found the ruined winery in Laveyron during excavations for a factory's parking lot, the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap) said in a Nov. 30 news release.The large-scale winemaking operation was built in the first century A.D. and probably produced drinks for ancient Romans...On either side of the platform, archaeologists found basins where the grape juice was collected...The basins were in turn linked to two larger rooms that...