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These ancient Egyptians are…
- • doing laundry
- • making beer
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• 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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anonymous
Is it real?
EeyoreTCwriter
It's a real ancient Egyptian wooden carving, yes. One of many found behind a collapsed wall. Preserved by the dry air.
newskibitz
How much for a six-pack?
anonymous
Beer is good.
anonymous
beer = liquid bread
anonymous
The staff of life!
unknownjpeg
Nice carving. Is this what the Egyptians had instead of TV?
anonymous
I thought they invented TV. And airplanes and stuff.
newskibitz
Not likely.
steroidsushi
they invented iPods, though.
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