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These ancient Egyptians are…
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• doing laundry
- • making beer
- • bowling
- • bathing infants
This 4000-year-old wooden model depicts Egyptians toiling at the important task of beer-making. According to their legends, it was Osiris, the god of the underworld, who granted mankind the gift of beer. Microscopic analyses of ancient residues suggest that the Egyptians made their beer with malted barley and wheat but without hops, making for a rather sweeter libation than the one we know today. The Egyptians regarded their beer highly enough that they buried their dead with it.
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