Vanilla-spicy wines were also drunk in ancient Jerusalem

They’ve been drinking vanilla-spicy wines for 2,600 years

Remains of spice from exotic, remote lands to the land of Israel were discovered in an excavation zone called the City of David in Jerusalem. With a scientific analysis of the tile remains of 6th-century BC amphorae fragments dating back to pre-Babylonian captivity.

Ajala Amir, a doctoral student at the Department of Archeology and Ancient Middle Eastern Cultures at the University of Tel Aviv, led a study combining the disciplines of chemistry and archeology with the laboratories of the Weizmann Institute and Bar-Ilan University. (Shiri Zsuzsa, MTI)