Ancient Beer, Wine Jars Found in Egypt

AP/SF Chronicle ^ | 5/18/05 | AP

[TFFKAMM]

(05-18) 18:18 PDT CAIRO, Egypt (AP) --

Archaeologists digging in a 5,000-year-old site in southern Egypt have unearthed 200 rough ceramic beer and wine jars and a second mud-brick mortuary enclosure of King Hur-Aha the founder of the First Dynasty, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said Wednesday.

A joint American excavation mission from Yale University, Institute of Fine Arts, the Pennsylvania University Museum and New York Universities found the treasure Wednesday at Shunet El-Zebib, north of Abydos in the Upper Egyptian city of Sohag.

[Coyoteman]

Archaeologists digging in a 5,000-year-old site in southern Egypt have unearthed 200 rough ceramic beer and wine jars

And most folks still think our earlier ancestors were "primitive!"

[Constitution Day]

FYI

[CarolinaGuitarman]

Did they find any 5,000 year old drinking songs too? Now that would be cool(that's the drunken musician in me :) lol)

[NormsRevenge]

Beer & Wine Ping

I owe ya a few ;-)

[NormsRevenge]

I've had ancient beer, it was sold in our rec center at the base..

FoulStuff.. uhh, Falstaff , it was ;-)

[NautiNurse]

ping

[TFFKAMM]

A friend of mine has a theory about beer and wine being the true linchpins of civilization. He says that once humans learned how to ferment and drink alcoholic beverages, it influenced everything from agriculture, to law, to economics, to religion and morals.

If I can ever get him to deliver a concise, coherent version of this theory, I'll post it on a Booze ping...

[sgtbono2002]

Is it Budweiser ? and if so what is the born date on it?

[Blue Screen of Death]

A friend of mine has a theory about beer and wine being the true linchpins of civilization. He says that once humans learned how to ferment and drink alcoholic beverages, it influenced everything from agriculture, to law, to economics, to religion and morals.

Not to mention that it allowed ugly women to reproduce. We frequently see the results today.

[patton]

Oh I wish I were

A pretty little girl

And I had me lots of Money

I'd marry me

A bricklayin' man

And we'd have fun together!

Oh he would lay

And I would lay

And wouldn't we have one hell of of a time

A'layin on each other!

[blam]

"Did they find any 5,000 year old drinking songs too?"

Yup, it starts this way:

"99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer..."

[Calpernia]

Well,

I have no idea how the combinatin of Egypt, beer, your song and my FR nick all came together...

But it got me to read your cabin story.

I enjoyed it.

[patton]

Drink, drink, drank, drunk

drink, drink, drank, drunk

drunk last night

drunk the night before-oh

I'm gonna get drunk tonight

like I never been drunk before...

[SunkenCiv]

Your friend's not the first:

Beer Brewing Paralleled the Rise of Civilization
Kurt Stoppkotte
for National Geographic News
April 24, 2001
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/04/0424_kurtbeer.html

and for health nuts:

"Antibiotic" Beer Gave Ancient Africans Health Buzz
John Roach
for National Geographic News
May 16, 2005
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/05/0516_050516_ancientbeer.html

[ZULU]

Guess they weren't Muslims back then.

Things haven't improved.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Constitution Day. There's a hieroglyphic inscription near this new find. Translated into English it reads, "I said Bud Light".

Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on, off, or alter the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
The GGG Digest -- Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)

[patton]

the old fart is my father. LOL. he taught me all these drinking songs, and how to build a cabin, and...

[Calpernia]

>>>he taught me all these drinking songs, and how to build a cabin, and...

How to extinguish flaming mice :)

[patton]

Well, that, too. LOL.