Ancient Egyptian wine cellar containing coins and ceramics discovered by archaeologists

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy There were no 2,500 year old bottles of the good stuff lying around, but archeologists exploring an ancient Greco-Roman wine cellar north of Egypt's capital Cairo did make a number of intriguing discoveries. Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities announced the discovery of the wine cellar at Tel Kom al-Trogy in Biheira province in the Nile Delta region, showing off pieces collected inside the subterranean facility. Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of Egypt’s antiquities council, described a distinguished architectural style inside the facility with thick mud brick walls of various depths, mixed in with irregularly shaped limestone blocks likely used to control temperatures inside the cellar. Ptolemaic era coins discovered in an ancient wine cellar north of Cairo Egypt, home to the Great Pyramids of Giza, has proven adept at regularly announcing ancient finds to pique the interest of travelers and archeology aficionados.