Israel Antiquities Authority archeologists find glass liquor bottles from World War I
(Artdaily.org)

Israeli experts on Wednesday said they had unearthed hundreds of glass liquor bottles at the remains of a First World War British army barracks in the centre of the country. The Israel Antiquities Authority said in a statement that the camp, near the town of Ramle, was used by an expeditionary force under General Edmund Allenby for about nine months from November 1917 during a pause in the campaign against the Turkish army in Palestine. The statement quoted excavation director Ron Toueg as saying the bottles were found among crockery shards and broken cutlery in a rubbish tip. `About 70 percent of the waste that was discarded in the refuse pit were liquor bottles,` Toueg said. `It seems that the soldiers took advantage of the respite given them to release the tension by frequently drinking alcohol.` `The discovery of this site and the finds in it provide us with an opportunity for a glimpse of the unwritten part of history, and reconstruct for the first time the everyday life and leisu