Surprise with Egyptian beer 5,800 years ago

Pieces of pottery found from Hierakonpolis, an archaeological site in Southern Egypt, were stunned when. covered with beer residue.

According to a paper just published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, the pottery shards date back 5,800 years and are a very popular beverage. Some ancient reliefs show that the Egyptians also used beer for parties like us. It is also a premium drink used for rituals.

Ancient beer pots and mugs assembled from ancient ceramic pieces

The research team led by Professor Jiajing Wang from Dartmouth College (New Hampshire - USA) said that Egyptian beer is related to the stratification of Egyptian society at that time as well as the gradual rise of a state. unified.

According to Acient Origins, the stele fragments date from 3800 to 3600 BC, 400-600 years before the pharaoh Narmer, who unified Egypt.

Citing research, New Scientist reports that Egyptian beer is brewed from wheat, barley and a grass with a unique flavor, quite low alcohol content. Egyptian beer is not like now but thick, opaque, comparable to porridge. The Egyptians used a long reed straw to drink beer just like how some ethnic minorities in our country drink can wine.

Before that, people had found quite a few breweries with a "younger" age at the ancient Egyptian ruins. There are breweries with extremely large capacity, which can produce 390 to 1,000 liters of beer at the same time.