Israel’s archaeologists find huge wine-making facility dating back 1,500 years

Israel’s archaeologists find huge wine-making facility dating back 1,500 years
An aerial picture taken by a drone shows a massive ancient winemaking complex (Tsafrir Abayov/AP)

Israeli archaeologists have unearthed a massive ancient winemaking complex dating back some 1,500 years.

The complex, discovered in the central town of Yavne, includes five wine presses, warehouses, kilns for producing clay storage vessels and tens of thousands of fragments and jars, they said.

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