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  • Greaco-Roman winery discovered in Egypt's Beheira

    04/08/2019 3:58:31 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 5 replies
    el-Ahram ^ | Sunday, January 27, 2019 | Nevine El-Aref
    An Egyptian archaeological mission has uncovered the third section of a Greaco-Roman winery and its store galleries surrounded by a mud brick wall at Abu Al-Matameer archaeological site in Beheira governorate. Adjacent is a residential settlement that was once used by the winery employees. Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, told Ahram Online that the galleries of the winery have a distinct architectural design, with thick mud brick walls of different sizes. Some of the walls bear in their mortar small blocks of limestone that appear to have been inserted randomly. "These blocks may have been used...