🍷 Wine press dating back 2,700 years discovered in northern Iraq
Ancient Assyrian wine production facility in Mesopotamia
📋 Fast Facts
- Dates to approximately 700 BCE, coinciding with the Assyrian Empire's peak
- Located in northern Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq)
- Believed to be the oldest known industrial wine press in the region
- Evidence of large-scale wine production for imperial consumption
Archaeologists excavating in northern Iraq have uncovered what is believed to be the oldest industrial wine press in ...