Alcohol has been around for thousands of years. However, the style of fermentation has changed throughout the ages. These are the oldest alcohols in human history.

The oldest known beer style dates back to ancient Sumeria, around 5,000 BCE. The Sumerians brewed a beer-like beverage called “kash”, made by fermenting loaves of barley bread in water. The result was ...

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A study reveals that Sumer, the cradle of civilization, rose because of natural tidal irrigation that shaped the world’s ...

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New research reveals Sumer’s cities may have risen with the tides, rewriting the origin story of the world’s first ...

A recent study is changing the understanding of how urbanization developed in ancient Mesopotamia. According to the analysis, the emergence of the Sumerian civilization was not only the result of ...

A recently published study in PLOS ONE is reshaping scientific understanding of the rise of urban civilization in ancient ...

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...

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