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2,600-Year-Old ‘Wine Factory’ Capable Of Holding 1,200 Gallons At A Time Unearthed In Lebanon Earlier studies suggest that the Phoenicians who lived thousands of years ago in the Mediterranean produced large batches of wine to drink and trade with other cultures. This massive winepress proves it. If you love to drink wine, you have the ancient Phoenicians to thank for making fermented grape juice so popular. The Phoenicians were a civilization of people who inhabited independent city-states along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the territory encompassing what is now Lebanon, northern Israel, and Syria. They were seafarers who embraced and spread a culture of making and drinking wine. Archaeologists recently found further proof of the Phoenicians’ wine culture dating back thousands of years ago. According to Phys.org, researchers unearthed an ancient yet well-presevered winepress at the archaeological site of Tell el-Burak about five miles south of the Lebanese city of Sidon. Arch...