Wine
Thursday, June 6th, 1996. The New York Times, Western edition, published on its front page, on the right, a photo of a wide-mouthed jar of baked mud. Do you know what was written under this photo?
Any speculation you made is false. Because it is written under this jar
Was:
According to this jar, the age of winemaking in Iran goes back to five thousand years before Christ. This jar was pulled out from under the soil by archaeologists in Urmia, which you know is famous for its grapes, and the sediments of the jar, which is made of clay, show the history of the first wine made in the world. Mrs. Dr. Mary M. Vogts, professor of anthropology at William Mary College in the state of Virginia, discovered this clay jar in the ruins of the kitchen of a house in the dormant subsoil named «Haji Firouz» near present-day Urmia and took it with her to America won.
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The deposits of this jar at the University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Prof
«Patrick E. McGovern» professor of archeology of this university analyzed and it was proved that this jar was a place for wine. Two points have not yet been determined: First, is the wine white or red? And secondly, whether the grapes that turned into wine in this jar are wild grapes or cultivated grapes that are now used in the wine industry. The same newspaper added below the photo:
Until now, it was thought that the oldest trace of alcohol production reaches 3,000 to 3,500 years before Christ, and the proof of this information was a clay jar that was found near «Godin Tiye» in Hamadan, Iran. And beer sediments have been discovered in it. Godin Tepe was a place of trade and commerce for the people of this region from West Asia during the era of the Sumerian civilization. Professor «McGarron» stated in the interview at the end of the news:
There is no doubt that the farmers of Haji Firouz district knew how to make and preserve wine seven or seven thousand four hundred years ago. Seven thousand four hundred years. That is, to the era when Bacchus, the god of wine of the Greeks, was not yet born, and humans did not know how to ride, dig wells, or write. Now, you still think that all this is due to constant drinking and wine that is mentioned in the poem. Iran is making waves and Hafez’s sonnets are intoxicated with it, are they baseless?
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