A former Christian-era wine jug workshop was discovered in central Israel

GEDERA – Remains of a large 1800 year old wine pitcher workshop were discovered in Israel, with 20 hot and cold baths, and a room devoured on playing boards which was supposed to allow the workers to relax, said archaeologists Tuesday

The wine jugs of Gaza were made famous in the ancient world because of the quality of the wine produced near Gaza. Ashkelon and Acre cities in specialized clay jugs at the markets of Rome and Alexandria.
The discoveries on Gedera's site include stacks of pottery fragments, presumably of defective and discarded pitchers, and four old playing boards that look a lot like Mancala and backgammon board games today.

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The factory has been active for about 600 years, manufacturing containers for wine storage which were popular export items in the Roman and Middle Ages. Byzantine, said the Israeli Antiquities Authority.

"Ongoing manufacturing could indicate that this has been a family business, handed down from generation to generation," she added, adding that recreational facilities "may have been used to relieve workers of the demands of their work. routine work ".