[Forward the Light Brigade]

The ancients made a great many interesting things and discoveries that are only now being recognized—Egyptian had an advance pharmacology, Romans were great engineers, Greeks were perhaps the best—they invested the keyboard for music, Organs, and a crude steam engine. Egypt invented straws for drinking, umbrellas to keep off the sun, wine & beer and Pizza (without the Tomato sauce) Stone buildings for temples and adobe bricks. great mystery—the mummies of Egypt had traces of cocaine—it only grows in South America—so they may have been trading with the New World. The world lost a lot with the Dark Ages.

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Egypt invented straws for drinking, umbrellas to keep off the sun, wine & beer

When the invention of beer is credited to Egypt I always imagine a man dying of thirst with no water at hand except some dribbles in the bottom of a bucket that had previously been used to cook gruel.

It had to be a desperate man that first saw fermented beer and said "Looks refreshing. I think I'll drink that brown foamy water..."