Grape pips (seeds) that were excavated from a Byzantine monastery in the Negev hint at the origins of the ‘mysterious’ Gaza wine and the history of grapevine cultivation in desert conditions.

Daniel Fuks (Bar-Ilan University) Daniel Fuks, the Bar-Ilan University PhD student, sought to determine whether there were any interesting trends in the relative frequency of grape pips in the ...

(photo credit: Devorin Media) Think of the hundreds of times you ate the fleshy part of a grape, separating the pips with your tongue before spitting them out. Did you ever stop to think what ...

His early excavations focused on middens, ancient trash piles. He and his colleagues were surprised by how many grape pips they dug up. The ancient city of Avdat (known as Abdah in Arabic) was founded ...

The grape seeds, or pips, from this time structurally resembled modern wild grapes more than domestic ones, which the team thinks could mean that human communities mostly gathered berries from wild ...

The qvevri, unearthed in Georgia, contained ancient wine grape pips and wine compounds dating to 6000 BC, as verified by mass spectrometry and chromatography methods. “Only 5% of the wine ...

Archaeologists in Egypt unearthed 5,000-year-old wine jars, many sealed, in Queen Meret-Neith's tomb at Abydos. This find provides direct evidence of ...

In addition to the wine jars, the archaeologists also found well-preserved grape seeds, also known as pips. “The discovery of sealed, intact wine jars at Abydos, along with well-preserved grape ...

Instead, they come from multiple sources, including the grape skin, the grape pip (a.k.a., the seed), the grape's stems, and even the wooden barrel that a wine may be aged in. The skin is the main ...

What Is Grape Seed Extract? The seeds used to make grape seed extract come from Vitis vinifera, the wild grape from which most wine grapes originate. This species is native to the Mediterranean ...