More on the Negev wine grapes

ANCIENT VITICULTURE: Modern Israeli grapes linked to grapes in the Bible - study. The seeds were found at archaeological excavations led by Prof. Guy Bar-Oz and colleagues from the University of Haifa’s School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures (Judy Siegel-Itzkovich, Jerusalem Post).

Seeds that provide a genetic link between two modern varieties of red and white grapes cultivated over 1,100 years ago – and apparently were mentioned in two different books of the Bible – have resulted in an “extraordinary and thrilling discovery” by archaeologists at Tel Aviv University (TAU) and the University of Haifa.

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I noted the underlying article here. This Jerusalem Post article is more reader friendly. For more on the same archaeo-botany project, see here.

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