Many ancient human societies loved beer. Bronze-Age Egyptians built factories to brew it. Foragers stored the fermented drink in a cave in Israel about 13,000 years ago. A pre-Incan empire in the ...

Students and staff at Trinity College Dublin have produced the world's first film in the ancient - and dead - Sumerian ...

The Epic of Gilgamesh, known as the oldest story in history, is thought to have been written in the early 2nd millennium BC, with the original being even older, in the 4th millennium BC. Journalist ...

Twitter users are attempting to decipher an ancient Sumerian joke that involves a dog who — you guessed it — walks into a bar. The @dephsofwikipedia Twitter account shares random interesting and weird ...

How would you like to chug it down just like the ancient Sumerians? Beer is a staple at many bars, ball games and college frat houses, but this alcoholic beverage has been around for thousands of ...

Miguel Civil, a scholar and researcher at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, was a leading expert on the Sumerian language, the earliest known written language. “No one has known Sumerian ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The fermented cereal beverage enjoyed by Sumerians, so-called Sumerian beer, may have been ...