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[quote=Anonymous]Another fascinating discovery -ancient Israelites were  industrial level wine producers … the rabbis loved both wine and art ..

[b]Yavne, just Yavne[/b]

The modern city of Yavne, located between Tel Aviv and Ashdod, has been a prolific site for archaeological discoveries in 2021. The city is growing quickly, and as a large tract of land is prepared for new housing construction, archaeologists are uncovering amazing artifacts.

About 1,500 years ago, [b]Yavne was an industrial center for wine production, producing approximately a half million gallons of wine per year[/b]. Archaeologists uncovered five huge winepress production areas, each over half the size of a basketball court, along with four huge warehouses and kilns for firing wine storage jars. They also found an older winepresses from the Persian period, dated to around 300 B.C.

In the decades after the destruction of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem, Yavne became a spiritual center, the home of many rabbis and the Sanhedrin. A building identified with that period has been excavated and a [u]beautiful large mosaic from 1,600 years ago is being restored[/u].

Perhaps the rarest Yavne discovery was an [u]intact chicken egg[/u] from 1,000 years ago, found in the remains of a privy.

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