Ancient Sumerian Beer Drinkers

Depiction of Sumerian beer drinkers, 2600BCE, using stalks to drink from large, communal containers.

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http://cdli.ucla.edu/pubs/cdlj/2012/cdlj2012_002_fig/figure1.jpg

An early drinking song found on a clay tablet from the same era: http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section4/tr4231.htm

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  1. So these Sumerian beer drinkers were getting whammed at about the same time the Young Earth Creationists think the world was being made? That must have been some hangover

  2. I assume the Sumerian beer was not ice pilsner.

  3. Africans, even on Mt Ararat, predisposed to beer summits

  4. Party like its 1999, B.C.E. that is…

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