Joseph and Food Preservation in Ancient Egypt

As I heard the story of Joseph once again in a Sunday morning sermon - there was one thing that fascinated me namely the storage of food for more than seven straight years. I always asked myself questions like, "How will the food not spoil if they harvested during the first year and it would go for 13 more years in the storage house?" The answer would be to dig through ancient Egyptian science and technology to know the methods of ancient food preservation. Here's an interesting read from a blog called Stealth Armoured which may help unlock the mystery of how Joseph may have preserved grains for Egypt for the seven years of famine: How did Ancient Egyptians preserve their food? Ancient Egyptians employed a variety of methods for food preservation. Great silos were constructed to preserve grain for long periods of time. Fish, meat, vegetables and fruits were were preserved by drying and salting. Grains were fermented to create beer. There is evidence that as ...