1. History of Alcoholic and Non-Alcoholic Beverages
Timeline: Beer in Mesopotamia and Egypt 10,000 BCE (Mesopotamia)-During the time period before 10,000 B.C.E. there was almost certainly no beer. ... Also around this time in 2700 BCE Gilgamesh was a Sumerian king who ruled the city-state of Uruk. 1335 BCE (Egypt or Mesopotamia)- Special sieves (for beer making) were found in the tomb of King Tutankhamen who died around this time. ... Primary Documents: Beer in Mesopotamia and Egypt: In 4000 BCE beer became a widespread in the Near East, when it appeared in a pictogram that two people had to drink the beer through a reed straw from a large...
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