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How did Egyptian techniques of Skorupa

Essay from the year 2008 in the subject History - World History - Early and Ancient History, grade: 70 Punkte = 2,0, The University of Liverpool (School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology), course: Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technologies, 20 entries in the bibliography, language: English, comment: Das englische Bewertungssystem an den Universitäten ist nach Punkten aufgeschlüsselt, wobei 100 Punkte den maximal zu erreichenden Wert darstellt. Der vorliegende Text hat eine Punktebewertung von 70 erzielt. Nach dem akademischen Benotungssystem, welches an deutschen Hochschulen den Standard darstellt, entspricht diese Punktzahl einer Note von 2,0. , abstract: How did Egyptian techniques of wine production (harvesting, treading, pressing, fermentation and storage) change during the course of the pharaonic period? "Il est vrai néanmoins, que ce vin [the Egyptian wine] n?est pas beaucoup estimé des Francs, à cause qu?il reste toujours un tiers de lie, qui le rend trouble aussitôt qu?on en veut verser. Mais si on avoit trouvé l?invention de la bien faire purifier, ce suroit assurément un vien très délicieux (...)." Although wine could not be indicated to be a typical element of the fauna of Egypt, skilled wine-makers of the Seventeenth Century proofed to produce a well-tasting juice, according to French traveller Vansleb. As archaeologists and historians - representing modern scholarship - have pointed out, that the wine-making process and its techniques have not been changed dramatically regarding the wine production utilized in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century, it is widely interesting to get to know more about Egyptian wine-manufacturing. Which tools were used to fulfil the difficult wine-making? How did a typical vineyard look like? Were there various types of wine and was it possible to get its taste throughout the whole society of ancient Egypt? Which role was played either by the reigning king or rather the gods - especially the goddess of harvest Renenutet? B