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Archaeologists have unearthed what may be one of the world’s oldest and largest wine cellar — a 3,700-year-old store room that held 2,000 litres of strong, sweet wine — in Israel.
The cellar, containing 40 intact jars, each of which would have held 50 litres of wine, was discovered in the ruined palace of a sprawling Canaanite city in northern Israel, called Tel Kabri.
The site dates to about 1,700 BC and isn’t far from many of Israel’s modern-day wineries.
Cline and Assaf Yasur—Landau, Chair of the Department of Maritime Civilisations at the University of Haifa, co-directed the excavation which found the cellar in July this year.
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