Ancient wine factory built by Crusaders unearthed in Israel – and it's the biggest ever found

Ancient wine factory built by Crusaders 700 years ago unearthed – and it's the biggest ever found

Ancient wine factory built by Crusaders 700 years ago unearthed – and it’s the biggest ever found14:35The winery, which boasts two areas for crushing grapes, is around 700 years old and may be the largest ever built by the brutal European invaders.The Crusaders barrelled across what is now the Middle East in a quest to capture the Holy Land from Muslim rule during the late 10th Century.

Helped by archaeologist Dr Rabei Khamisy, locals in the Israeli town of Mi'ilya have been working together to shore up the ruins of a castle built there by the Crusaders.While digging up a house nearby, they stumbled upon a winery of epic proportions. "The Byzantines had much larger wineries, but the Crusaders had nothing comparable as far as we know," he told Israeli newspaperThe winery is impressive largely because it has not one but two parallel floors for mushing grapes.

Archaeologists think Baldwin III, a Crusader King of Jerusalem, built the town's castle as a strategic defence fortress.It's not clear precisely when the newly found winery was built, or whether it was directly linked to the castle's residents.

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