Archaeologists in Israel’s Jezreel Valley have discovered the country’s oldest known winepress and other Canaanite items in Tel Meggido, where groundwork on a new road unearthed the artifacts, the Israel Antiquities Authority said on Wednesday.

The winepress, which is 5,000 years old, and other items found ”instruct us about everyday domestic Canaanite worship taking place outside Tel Megiddo,” said the IAA. The finds will be displayed at the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein National Campus for the Archaeology of the Land of Israel in Jerusalem.

The discovery followed earthworks for the Netivei Israel – National Transport Infrastructure Company for Highway 66. Diggers alerted archaeologists, who excavated the finds.

The items constitute evidence of Jezreel Valley settlement expansion at the

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