This is a great find! A brewery dating to around 3500 BCE has been discovered, along with a cemetary and a variety of items dated to the beginning of the 1st dynasty: Archeologists unearth ancient brewery

My first irreverent thought was, the inhabitants of the cemetary must have been guaranteed a 'merry' afterlife being buried next to a brewery! LOL

There is also a seperate news report [Oldest wooden statues found in Egypt] on the discovery of "two 5,000-year-old wooden statues, complete with gold wrapping paper, believed to be the oldest such artefacts ever found" from the site, which contradicts the first report that "the mission also found golden foils used in covering two wooden statues ... the statues, representing standing naked men, have not been recovered, except for eyes."

I would have thought it actually pretty unlikely that the wooden statues themselves would have survived after 5,000 years?