Originally published at: Archaeologists found the oldest mass-production brewery in ancient Egyptian ruins | Boing Boing
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Why was the brewery in a burial ground?
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AB Inbev Corp. will be right there to buy it and market it.
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And every pot was producing a New England IPA. . . .
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Look up the Ancient Egyptian afterlife. Would you want to go there stone cold sober?
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Another destination for my alcoholic time travel tour.
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And they ditched the label hieroglyphics for Papyrus font.
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From the BBC article linked in the post:
The brewery “may have been built in this place specifically to supply the royal rituals that were taking place inside the funeral facilities of the kings of Egypt”, an Egyptian tourism ministry statement quoted archaeologist and mission co-head Matthew Adams of New York University as saying.
Beer is thought to have been produced on a large scale, with about 22,400 litres (5,000 gallons) made at a time.
“Evidence for the use of beer in sacrificial rites was found during excavations in these facilities,” the statement said.
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Not relevant to the burial grounds, but the Egyptians exported huge amounts of beer to the Greeks for copper. The Greeks, in turn, did not drink beer (it was considered a low-class “Egyptian” drink). Instead they used it to soften ivory tusks for carving. The Egypt-Greek beer trade is one of the ways we are able to track copper exports around the Mediterranean.
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You forgot to include pictures of the corresponding wall art showing scantily-clad Egyptian maidens partying on the beach.
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It’s a sacrifice but hey somebodies got to do it…burp
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