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Excavations at Ancient Greek City of Bathonea Reveal Olive Oil and Wine Workshop

An ancient Greek skyphos wine cup, deocrated in the red fiugre style, dated c. 440 BC. Credit: Gary Todd via Wikimedia Commons, CC0 Archaeologists have uncovered an olive oil and wine workshop in the ancient Greek city of Bathonea (Greek: Βαθονεία), located on the shores of Lake Küçükçekmece near today’s Istanbul in modern Turkey. The discovery sheds new light on the city’s industrial and cultural life during antiquity. Ancient industry on the Marmara coast Bathonea was once a thriving ancient Greek port city that linked Aegean colonies to the city of Byzantium...


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