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Just read about a 4,500 year old brewery they found in Egypt

It was in Abydos, made for royal rituals. They think it could make over 5,000 gallons of beer at once. That scale for that time is wild. Anyone know of other finds that show ancient industrial sites like this?
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shane_bell
Actually closer to 4,000 years old.
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emma_rodriguez30
Yeah, that scale is nuts. I saw a doc about a huge Roman pottery factory in France, like an entire industrial zone. They had rows of kilns and could pump out thousands of amphorae for wine and oil. It was basically the ancient version of a mass production line.
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daniel_cooper34
My own pottery skills peaked at a lopsided ashtray in third grade.
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