COLUMELA TOLD US HOW TO MAKE QUALITY OLIVE OIL 2000 YEARS AGO

COLUMELA TOLD US HOW TO MAKE QUALITY OLIVE OIL 2000 YEARS AGO

Lucius Junius Moderatus, known as Columela, was born in Gades (the current Cádiz), in the Roman Bética region, in the year 4 AD. A friend of Seneca, he held the position of military tribune in the Sixth Ironclad Legion (Legio VI Ferrata) in Syria. After this, he moved...

THE OLDEST OLIVE OIL MILL OF ALL TIME IS 8000 YEARS OLD

On the shores of Israel, submerged under the sea, a Neolithic civilization has been found. The biggest mystery of this settlement is that it had a well of potable water to supply the population and an olive oil mill. Being that it is 7,500-8,000 years old, it is the...
THE GROTTO OF GETHSEMANE WAS ORIGINALLY AN OLIVE OIL MILL

THE GROTTO OF GETHSEMANE WAS ORIGINALLY AN OLIVE OIL MILL

The cave referenced to in the Bible, where Jesus spent his last moments as a free man and where he was delivered by Judas (known as the Grotto of Gethsemane), was originally an oil mill. Not only that, Gethsemane means «Oil Press», (Gath-press / Shemen-oil), referring...

LA ALMAZARA MÁS ANTIGUA DE LA HISTORIA HOY TENDRÍA 8.000 AÑOS

En las costas de Israel, sumergida bajo el mar, se ha encontrado una civilización del neolítico. La mayor curiosidad de este asentamiento es que contaba con un pozo de agua potable para suministro de la población y una almazara, que con sus 7.500-8.000 años de...