A handout picture shows the remains of vats used for beer fermentation, in a complex which may be the world's 'oldest' high-production brewery, uncovered in the Abydos archaeological site near Egypt's southern city of Sohag. Photo: AFP
American and Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed what could be the oldest known beer factory at one of the most prominent archaeological sites of ancient Egypt, a top antiquities official said on Saturday.
Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the factory was found in Abydos, an ancient burial ground located in the desert west of the Nile River, over 450km (280 miles) south of Cairo.
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