Yavne was a world wine powerhouse about 1500 years ago: A huge and well-planned industrial area from the Byzantine period, with a very impressive wine production plant - the largest known in the world from the period, has been unveiled in the city over the past two years. This was a huge excavation conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority as part of the Israel Land Authority's initiative to expand the city. The plant includes five magnificent wine cellars, warehouses for aging and marketing the wine, kilns for burning the clay jars in which the liquids were stored, tens of thousands of fragments of earthen jars and jars that were found intact, neat access routes between the facilities, and more.

Drinking wine was very common in ancient times, for children and adults alike. Since the water was not always sterile and tasty, wine was also used as a kind of "concentrate" to improve the taste, or as a substitute for drinking water. Each of the exposed winepresses covered an area of ​​about 225 square meters. Around the treading floor, where he stepped on the grapes barefoot to extract the liquid, cells were built for fermenting the wine, and next to them - two cisterns for collecting the wine, whose shape is octagonal.